The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Reynolds Price
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: A Fourth of July around 1955
- Setting: Southern United States
- Principal Characters: Aunt Zimby, Vesta, Mr. Ed
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, South or Southerners, Blindness or blind persons, Holidays, Old age or elderly people, Aging
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
Events unfold slowly: Mr. Ed, a southern white man, visits Aunt Zimby every Fourth of July—the date that she has designated as her birthday. His purpose is to give her a birthday present, a new pair of blue tennis shoes, although she has never played tennis and is now blind and cannot discern the color. He annually reenacts this tradition, following the example of his father, who has been dead for two years.
Aunt Zimby, who was born around the time of the Civil War, has “belonged” to this family of whites through four generations, being passed down and...
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