The women in Hurston and Wrights stories

The women in Hurston and Wrights stories

The way a woman was perceived and treated in the stories of Zora Hurston and Richard Wright were very different from one another. This could be because Hurston was a woman and Wrights was a male. The different outlooks could have came from the fact that Hurston had a good education and attended a university while Wright educated himself for many years and only finished high school. Wright grew up in a home which was very poor and parents as slaves while Hurston grew up financially stable home with her father being town mayor.
In The Gilded Six-Bits, Hurston portrays the power of the relationship to be with the women. Missy May cheats on her loving husband Joe with a seemingly rich and powerful man named Slemmons and then in the end Joe stays with Missy May. “Missy May knew why she didn’t leave Joe. She couldn’t. She loved him too much, but she could not understand why Joe didn’t leave her. He was polite, even kind a...