Critical Source:
- Ostrom, Hans. Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1993.
Discussion starters
- Ostrom says that the narrator of this story "display[s] some of the apparently simpleminded but actually sophisticated qualities associated with the trickster" (7). In what ways do you find this true?
- Is Pauline meant to be a sympathetic character? Do you find her so?
- Why does Hughes leave the narrator of this story nameless?