The Gilded Six Bits
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Themes
All Themes Domesticity and Routine Appearances, Reality, and Trust Money, Class, and Power Sexuality and Marriage
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Characters
All Characters Missie May Banks Joe Banks Otis D. Slemmons Joe’s Mother Candy Store Clerk
Symbols
All Symbols Otis Slemmons’ “Gold” Sun and Moon
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allusions Dialect Foil Genre Irony Mood Personification Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone
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by Zora Neale Hurston
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