Singing Dinah’s Song (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank London Brown
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: A factory in a northern U.S. city
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Daddy-o (James), Charlie Wicowycz, Mr. Grobber
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Factories, United States or Americans, Class conflict, Blacks, Music or musicians, Singing or singers, Work or workers, Labor, Factory management
- Locales: North (U.S.)
The Story
Framed by the songs of Dinah Washington, this story falls into four parts. As it opens, the narrator recalls his work as a punch-press operator at Electronic Masters Incorporated, a company that molds sheet steel into frames for radio and television speakers. The work is demanding, the pay minimal, the heat maximal, the foremen constantly pushing workers to go faster, and the machines intolerably noisy. The work is almost more than he can bear: “I get to thinking about all that noise that that big ugly punch press makes, and me sweating, scuffing, trying to make my...
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