There are several examples of money and wealth in the novel that show the vastly different worlds lived by Caucasian and African Americans during this time period. Petry uses the central protagonist, Lutie Johnson, to explore the different world of Caucasian and African Americans during the 1940s. Lutie learns early on in life that money matters which she believes partly what separates her from Caucasian Americans. Petry imbues wealth and money throughout her novel, The Street, and uses it to show a wall that separates Caucasian and African Americans. The Street gives valuable insight, through is characters, into the mindset of Caucasian and African Americans during the 1940’s; the novel uses money and wealth as an impassable wall that Lutie Johnson peers over but never
There are several examples of money and wealth in the novel that show the vastly different worlds lived by Caucasian and African Americans during this time period. Petry uses the central protagonist, Lutie Johnson, to explore the different world of Caucasian and African Americans during the 1940s. Lutie learns early on in life that money matters which she believes partly what separates her from Caucasian Americans. Petry imbues wealth and money throughout her novel, The Street, and uses it to show a wall that separates Caucasian and African Americans. The Street gives valuable insight, through is characters, into the mindset of Caucasian and African Americans during the 1940’s; the novel uses money and wealth as an impassable wall that Lutie Johnson peers over but never