Gwendolyn
Brooks accomplishes invoking the roll of the 1940s African American female in
her poem "Sadie and Maud" by portraying their different social identities
that black women could have. One of the
obvious rolls given is the young girl that successfully becomes a college
graduate, but at the price of her youth.
The other is girl who skipped out on the option of going to college to
enjoy herself and the beauty of her youth and working through life. These two girls do differentiate in their
rolls by shame accompanying the girl who used her beauty to pass through life
and the other partnered with loneliness for pursuing education. And even though Saudie's beauty brought two
children that the rest of her family didn't approve of, she still had more
pride and love for those two girls than her sister did. Moral of the story, don't be so judgmental of
the actions of other because karma is a bitch.
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