Compare and Contrast the Gilded Six Bits

Compare and Contrast the Gilded Six Bits Compare and contrast Zora Neale Hurston’s’ characters Delia from “Sweat, and Missie May from “The Gilded Six-Bits” to how women of color are treated in today’s society.

Compare and contrast Zora Neale Hurston’s’ characters Delia from “Sweat, and Missie May from “The Gilded Six-Bits” to how women of color are treated in today’s society. Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits” was published in Story magazine in 1933, when Hurston was a relative newcomer on the literary scene. The well-known publisher Bertram Lippincott read the story and liked it so much that he wrote to Hurston and asked if she was working on a novel. She wasn’t, but, eager for a book deal, she told him that she was, and, three months later, presented him with the manuscript of her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine.