Memorable Characters In Edwidge Danticat's Night Women

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In Edwidge Danticat’s novel, “Krik Krak,” he writes a series of short stories in which he incorporates juxtapositions that create three depressing but memorable characters. The contrast in the characters lives contributes to creating the overall gloomy mood of the book. These three characters are Guy from “A Wall of Fire Rising,” Marie from “Between the Pool and the Gardenias,” and the mother from “Night Women”. Each of their lives has many contrasting points within them that put emphasis on many details in the chapters.

In the beginning of the book “A Wall of Fire Rising”, Guy, an extremely unhappy man, is so depressed he is unable to see how he has already provided his son with a better life than he had. His son, Little Guy spends all his time studying his lines for a play while Guy fantasizes about stealing the local hot air balloon from a plantation. Lili is against Guy’s idea and tells him that “if God wanted us to fly he would have given us wings on our backs” (68). But Guy explains that even though humans are not made …show more content…

The story is about a prostitute who has to do her job next to her young, sleeping son’s bed. The mother tells him that she gets dressed up because she is waiting for an angel to come. This is an unforgettable moment because she lies to her own son about something so outrageous to keep him innocent and happy. When she says, “the night is the time I dread the most in my life. Yet if I am to live, I must depend on it,” she explains how she hates her profession but knows she has to do it for her and her son’s well-being. The fact that her son is right beside her as she works as a prostitute really emphasizes the mother’s love for the child. Although it is absurd to have her child in the same room it shows that the mother gave up her body to random men to take care of her son. This brings sadness to the story and made the mood of the chapter gloomy and

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