These portraits of Street life are examples of life in survival mode, in the jungle of concrete that leaves so many subject to abuse. She is a poor, single woman with a child who has to work to provide for them, so she ends up in Harlem of all places, during the 1940's, when racism against black people was still openly violent in many places. Imagery of povertyįewer places in the world were subject to more abject poverty than Lutie's situation. From this, all the way to the rape attempts, there is imagery of sexual deviance and violence. She doesn't get along with him because he is a touchy creep and she feels he abuses his powers. Lutie's awareness of their insidious interests begins early, as soon as she meets Jones. This novel includes explicit scenes describing precisely the behaviors of rape, which Junto tries and which another man tries whom Lutie kills in the final act. But, Lutie adjusts very realistically and quickly at that she has not been spoiled by privilege. As a black family, there were obvious disadvantages that still pertained to them, but still, we know from Lutie's fashion, her behavior, and her attitudes what her life was like in the middle class. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousįor a long while, Lutie was a housewife in an established household.
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