Anjuelle Floyd

Tag: African American

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

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    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Requiem on a Dark Night”

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    In Edward P. Jones’ A Dark Night the not so apparent protagonist, Ida Garrett, arrives at the apartment of her neighbor, Carmena Boone, and finds another neighbor, Beatrice Atwell for whom she has been searching. Beatrice, Carmena and the two other elderly women, the two Frazier sisters are waiting for the minister, Reverend Dr. Sawyer,…

  • Transformation of a Father into a New Man

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    Edward P. Jones’ A New Man displays the transformation of a man whose daughter runs away from home and does not return. The story opens with fifty-two-year-old Woodrow L. Cunningham arriving home early mid-afternoon, one day in late October to find his fifteen year-old daughter, Elaine, home from school and with two boys in her…

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