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Gracie Mae Still, Walker's first-person narrator, is modeled after Willie Mae "Big Mama"...
Our narrator tells her brutal story in first person, and she spares us nothing—we get all...
The eponymous heroine of the story, Elethia is a young woman who takes a job in the kitchen of...
The subject of this story is a Black female poet who sets her poetry to jazz music. She's married...
This story is literally five paragraphs long, so there's not really a lot of time for character...
Walker portrays the wife in her "fable" as a typical Black woman confronted with her husband's...
While Andrea Clement White is probably the most entertaining of Walker's characters in this...
Once again, we're gonna warn you of the dangers of assuming that a first-person narrator is...
Don't despair if you look long and hard and can't find this character's name: Walker only...
Susan Marie is a professor who's having a bit of a run-in with her colleague, Lucy. At issue is...
Sarah Davis finds herself in a tough position. She's a student at Cresselton, a posh Northern...
When we meet Irene, she's not in a good place. She's just been dealt a professional blow: "An...
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