In Banana Bottom written by Claude McKay, the …show more content…
Furthermore, Bita Plant’s appreciation of learning and improving her education created positive influential aspects that enhanced vivacity and boldness. The superstitions, revival meetings, and passionate courtships gave Bita the acknowledgement of analyzing her own psyche. Upward mobility meant more leisure time, consumer goods, and predictability. Many opportunities organized social security during this time that created different political and economic conditions. Bita Plant wanted to prove to women in the real world that it is possible to overcome their challenges by being sympathetic to complicated situations. In “The Road to Psychic Unity: The Politics of Gender in Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom,” Barbara Griffin argued, “For Bita, a young woman living in the late 19th-century rural community, or what Singh calls, “a simplified universe”, the transformation is not a difficult one: she simply leaves one shelter and goes to another” (503). The power of figurative language, generosity, and heroism balanced society’s perspective on