For instance, when the characters in "The Gilded
Six-Bits" are analyzed, many readers of CroWs book might want to know why Missie May is deceived by Otis Slemmons and what reconciles Joe Banks and Missie May.
Robert W. Croft. A Zora Neale Hurston Companion
The four-bits good (example: AB) and the
six-bits good chips (example: ABC) are used with a specially designed DIMM PCB.
Innovative testing rescues fallout DRAMs. (Memory Test)
Dunn's "'The Ring of Singing Metal on Wood': Zora Neale Hurston's Artistry in 'The Gilded
Six-Bits'" stands apart in this collection because in analyzing Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded
Six-Bits" they are focusing on a short story written in 1933 not to reconcile past and present but to address themes of particular relevance during the Depression.
Introduction: history and the African-American Voice
"The Gilded
Six-Bits" presents the story of Missie May, unable to see through the shining currency to recogniz e its meager value; this mis-sight leads her to an affair with the man who owns the false coins, nearly ruining her marriage.
"The porch couldn't talk for looking": Voice and Vision in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.'(Zora Neale Hurston)(Critical Essay)
"THE GILDED SIX-BITS," FIRST PUBLISHED IN Story, AUGUST 1933, is Zora Neale Hurston's last short story before she became a novelist with the publication of Jonah's Gourd Vine in 1934.
As the culmination of her apprenticeship, "The Gilded Six-Bits" is significant for its foreshadowing of the themes and narrative technique of her finest novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
The latter period begins with "The Gilded Six-Bits" and ends with Dust Tracks on a Road (Kilson, p.
"It was a Negro yard around a Negro house," Hurston begins "The Gilded Six-Bits," "in a Negro settlement that looked to the payroll of the G.
Even the term "six-bits" resonates with popular culture of the 1930s when seventy-five cents could make a big difference, because even the smallest amounts of money had considerable buying power, or it could mean nothing at all in the face of national economic privation.
In "The Gilded Six-Bits," however, rather than addressing a moral failing on the part of her main characters, Hurston uses gilded money and Otis D.
In "The Gilded Six-Bits," Missie May, and Joe, to a lesser extent, allow corrupt desires to replace their innocent acceptance of their native cultural values.
"The ring of singing metal on wood": Zora Neale Hurston's artistry in "The Gilded Six-Bits"
Scholars familiar with Hurston's writing know that representations of washing and cleanliness recur in her work, perhaps most significantly in Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), the brilliant "Gilded Six-Bits" (1933), and "Sweat" (1926).
Similarly, "The Gilded Six-Bits" opens with Missie May "bathing herself in the galvanized washtub in the bedroom" (985).
As in Jonah and "The Gilded Six-Bits," "Sweat" begins with a scene of washing: Delia Jones, a "washwoman," "squat[s] in the kitchen floor beside the great pile of clothes, sorting them into great heaps according to color" (955).
The story goes on to detail the difficult relationship between Delia and Sykes, incorporating a narrative of sexual infidelity (as in "The Gilded Six-Bits," only with a reversal of genders).
Waste and Whiteness: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Eugenics