After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilsonia Benita Driver
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: April in the late 1960's
- Setting: Indianapolis
- Principal Characters: Sandy, Winston, Anthony Smith
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Love or romance, Antiheroes, Substance abuse, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Drug addiction or addicts, Heroin
- Locales: Indianapolis, IN
The Story
As the story opens, Sandy has gone indignantly to the bank to correct what she believes to be a bank error showing her checking account to be three hundred dollars overdrawn. To her humiliation, the bank officer confronts her with five checks—all bearing the signature of Winston, the man with whom she lives. She reacts to the officer's condemning stare with a stupor of silence and immobility, so that someone must be called to drive her home. Ironically, Anthony Smith, Winston's drug connection, arrives and Sandy rides silently home while contemplating the first...
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