Dec 25, 2009

Spunk | Spunk

At a glance:

Author: Zora Neale Hurston
First Published: 1925
Type of Plot: Sketch
Time of Work: The 1920's
Setting: Florida
Principal Characters: Spunk Banks, Lena Kanty, Joe Kanty, Walter Thomas, Elijah Mosley
Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, South or Southerners, Ghosts or apparitions, 1920’s, Violence, Adultery
Locales: Florida

The Story

In a small town in central Florida that is populated exclusively by African Americans, Walter Thomas and Elijah Mosley are sitting on the porch of a store. They notice that Lena Kanty has disappeared into the nearby palmetto bushes with Spunk Banks, who is not her husband.

Unconcerned about town gossip, Spunk and Lena continue down their brazen path, oblivious to the fact that Joe Kanty, Lena's beleaguered husband, has entered the store. Walter and Elijah, who function like a Greek chorus, mock the shy husband and warn him that he is about to be cuckolded. Joe...

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Spunk | Spunk

At a glance:

The Story

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