Q Describe the narrator. Who is she? What is she like? Where and how does she live? What kind of life has she had? How does the story bring out her judgments about her two daughters?
The narrator is “a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands” (Walker). She is simple-minded and does not have many opinions about what to eat and wear. She is illiterate and has never been to school. Her children used to read to her. They lived in a thatched house which was burnt.
