Margaet

The author Maya Angelou employs discerning writing to give a best image of Mrs. Cullinan. As a ten-year-old child living in Virginia, Margaret is employed by a white woman, Mrs. Cullinan. Mrs. Cullinan is the kind of woman who gives into the pressure of her prejudice friends’ remarks. An example of this is when Mrs. Cullinan calls Margaret, Mary because Mrs. Cullinan’s friends tell her she should. Because of this, Margaret purposely breaks one of Mrs. Cullinan dishes.
The White people in the story were ignorant people, towards the Black people, an example is Margaret tells a woman that in Stamps, her grandmother owned the only Negro general merchandise store since the turn of the century, and the woman replies by saying, why you were a debutante. (29 Angelou) This to me sounds like the White woman was acting in a sarcastic and rude way towards Margaret. Whites did not have respect towards Black people. Even after Mrs. Cullinan was told numerous times not to call Margaret anythin...