A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: New York and Georgia
- Principal Characters: Sarah Davis
- Genres: Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: New York
The Story
An external narrator presents a few days in the life of Sarah Davis, a popular college student, one of the only two black students at a prestigious women's college in New York. Sarah faces many conflicts, both external and internal. Her environment is perfect for her in some ways, but also troubling. She is studying art at a college with the best teachers, yet she has difficulty with her art because there are few models for the black faces she wants to draw. She particularly feels unable to draw black males, because she cannot bear to trace defeat on her blank pages....
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