Zora Neale Hurston’s, “The Gilded Six-Bits,” shares the story of Joe and Missie May, two young newlyweds experiencing the pleasures of marriage together. All appears well until Missie May cheats on the seemingly innocent Joe with Otis Slemmons, a high-rolling businessman of supposed wealth who apparently arrives in town from Chicago. The devastating blow of infidelity proves to be non-fatal to the marriage, but the servant-master relationship between them and personal agenda of Joe dominates Missie…
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