Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Street is a very different novel than anything I have read - the main character is really stuggling with 2 aspects of her identity and how they mingle and conflict. On one hand, she wants to be regarded as a new woman who plans on taking care of her self and her son with a 'proper' job and to have the right to fight for the same rights as white women. Though she is capable of this, the color of her skin is holding her back on a very surface level. No one took the chance to get to know her (so far in chapters 1 - 3) and instead just judged her as black first, woman second, and human very far behind. It's sad and I am interested in seeing what happens.
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It is strange to have a main character who is not only struggling to be a new woman, but who is also held back by her race at the same time, like you said. The people in the white house she works in simply say that she is an attractive black woman, so she will automatically steal their husbands away and such. I too am interested in more of this plot unfolding
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