The Gilded Six-Bits Analysis

In the story “The Gilded Six-Bits”, there are several important elements of literature. Elements of literature are included in every piece of literature that has ever been written. These elements are not just in stories, but in every written work that exists. These elements that are included in each written piece of work help progress what is written, and make it more interesting for the readers. Each element helps the reader make the piece of literature come to life using their imagination. Some elements can even appeal to a person’s senses by giving the literature intense detail throughout the work. Without these elements, details that are included in the piece of literature would not bring the story to life. Each element that is in “The …show more content…
This setting was well thought out by Zora Hurston, and has a purpose of being put in this short story. The story takes place in a small town in the Southern region of the United States called Eatonville. Eatonville was a small town founded by African Americans in 1887. Even though this was a small town, it was still a decent place to live. “It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement that looked to the payroll of the G and G Fertilizer works for its support. But there was something happy about the place” (Hurston 727). This short story does not state the name of the town it takes place in in the beginning, but at the end of the story the readers find out that it takes place in the town Eatonville. This is where the author, Zora Hurston, moved to at a very young age. “The author, Zora Hurston, has a connection with this story’s setting. The bulk of Zora Neale Hurston’s short fiction is set in her native Florida, as are most of her novels. Even when the setting is not Florida, however, the stories are informed by the life, habits, beliefs, and idioms of the people whom Hurston knew so well, the inhabitants of Eatonville primarily” (Carson). Throughout her childhood living in Eatonville, she began noting how the atmosphere and surroundings affected her and everyone else in her town. In this story, she uses her memories of Eatonville as a child to help readers get a picture of how Eatonville was through her eyes. She more than likely did not include everything, but with the details she supplies the readers can get a better image of this town. When Zora grew up, and graduated from college, she began including Eatonville as the setting in many novels she began to write. Throughout “The Gilded Six Bits”, readers can see Hurston’s background coming out through the setting, characters, and diction. Zora made