What is the significanc that this character has three different women living inside her, but is missing part of her physical body?
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...that she become whole in something other than physical form...What is the significanc that this character has three different women living inside her, but is missing part of her physical body?
None. I do not think most writers think along these lines when they are writing...theme and other tecniques are sought by the reader. Uncle Steve just wants to tell a goodly yarn.What is the significanc that this character has three different women living inside her, but is missing part of her physical body?
I know plenty of folks who take this stand (sorry), but I can't help suspecting that there are reasons that an author includes this and not that; reasons which the author himself needn't be conscious of, perhaps can't be. So, I tend to ask the same kind of questions as in the OP.None. I do not think most writers think along these lines when they are writing...theme and other tecniques are sought by the reader. Uncle Steve just wants to tell a goodly yarn.
What is the significanc that this character has three different women living inside her, but is missing part of her physical body?
Yes...it is even stated that Detta Walker was "born" when the brick hit her, and became more real after she "took the A Train." (Love that song - I'm not a huge Ellington fan but WHEW! Cat Anderson wailing away, has to be the best version ever!)...that she become whole in something other than physical form...
Her accent represents a stereotyped view of how black people speak.A question on Detta.
What kind of dialect is she speaking ?
That's was my first thought but i wasn't sure.Her accent represents a stereotyped view of how black people speak.
Clarifying----- it is representative of that era /black being the tern used then.
...and he REALLY laid it on thick....he went way overboard on the stereotype which was probably intentional-so as to make that "person" even more objectionable....That's was my first thought but i wasn't sure.
Thanks Spideyman
...and he REALLY laid it on thick....he went way overboard on the stereotype which was probably intentional-so as to make that "person" even more objectionable....
Been thinking about this for awhile now....and he REALLY laid it on thick....he went way overboard on the stereotype which was probably intentional-so as to make that "person" even more objectionable....