The Fisher King Response

The spaces and places represented in Paule Marshall’s The Fisher King are important to the development of the characters and their conflicts with one another. Marshall draws two opposing great-grandmothers by making them and the spaces they occupy, their homes, significant to who they are. For instance, Ulene, Sonny’s West Indian great-grandmother lives in a slovenly house that is harsh to look at and she is hard to handle, as the inside of her mind has begun to match the inside of her home. Then, in the same vein of sp...