Ann Petry, The Street
In Lutie's thoughts, everything she does is for one person, whose name is
Bub, her son
The author decided to write under the name "Banana" for what reasons?
The attractive color of the fruit, to suggest a non-binary gender identity, and for humor.
What is an "Okie."
What are some characteristics of "Dark" and Gothic US literature?
Madness as in The Black Cat and The Street
Evil rich people as in Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Casque of Amontillado
Extreme family dysfunction--compare Holly's life to the narrator of Kitchen's life
Family troubles challenge Lutie, and those are:
Betrayal by her husband
Alcoholism of her father
Bub naturally wanting to explore his environment and befriend those in it
Boots' unsuitability as a partner
The narrator decides to live with a mother and son she barely knows for unusual reasons.
She loves their kitchen, the couch, and she feels safe and protected there.
No matter how bad things get, children must be taken...
to school
Holly Golightly lives on the Upper East Side of New York, but a category of place, where entertainment attracts both the poor and the rich is called
What is Bohemia?
Lutie tries many occupations, among them:
Foster parent
Childcare, cook, and cleaner
Civil servant for NYC government
Cafe singer
College students gossip about the situation, and the narrator hears about a confrontation in the dining hall.
The girlfriend slaps her friend.
Strike breakers and agents hired by large farms abuse the migrant workers in at least two ways...
They beat them up
They evict them from their tents campgrounds
Didion fell in love with New York because...
The glamor and style of fashion
Meeting unexpected people
Most of all--you could be whoever you wished or do whatever without any cost
The Sup is unexpectedly thwarted by magic.
What are the cross and the powder sold to Min by a medicine man and advisor.
What ideal or aspiration of Japanese culture explains some of the plot of the novel?
Hospitality to other Japanese who undergo a setback.
Hard work is the best route to achievement (as a self-taught chef).
Propriety may lead to violence and so can living in an authentic not socially approved way,
Union organizers include workers who are not displaced by the dustbowl such as
Mexican workers and black workers
Didion fell out of love with New York because...
She ran out of "new people"
The most satisfying part of working for Vogue was the mechanical production of the magazine
Her gorge started to rise when she saw Upper East Side women with their little dogs--the key Vogue readers
She wanted to go back to the space and quiet of California
She married a soulmate fellow writer who was happy to see her through a hard stretch
The novel ends with two crimes, one that is predictable and one that is less so. They are...
Attempted rape and murder
The bond between the two main characters has to do with loss, represented by....
Both are "orphaned"
Some of the depictions of everyday life and relationships that make this novel admired include
The love for the work and environment farmers retain
Young lovers depicted before the dustbowl ruins their chances
The pain of hunger and the euphoria that cooked stolen alfalfa gives the starving family
Elizabeth Hardwick was Roman Catholic and from Kentucky, but she wanted to become...
A New York Jewish intellectual...and she did it
co-founder of The New York Review of Books.