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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Blog #5: "The Gilded Six Bits"
Irony is an important literary device.On a very basic level it is a difference between the appearance of a
situation and the reality.
Find an example of irony in “The Gilded Six Bits” and
discuss it briefly.
The irony in "The Gilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston is the wife Missie May who claims that she cheated on her husband Joe in order to give him a gold coin which she thought he would love. Although Missie May and Joe already possess a treasure far more valuable than gold: which is their love for each other. Ironically, Missie May nearly loses this love in return for the promise of a gold coin (which really isn't gold in the first place) the coin is actually found to be only a gilded half-dollar from Otis Slemmons. However, her repentance and Joe's faith in her save their marriage.
I think the irony in "The Gilded Six Bits" was how value over gold can't succeed over love. Missy May and Joe were happy but temptation occurred when Missy and Mr. Slemmons encountered in a pleasurable way she believed he would give her gold and it tempted her to lose her marriage for the value of gold and in the act the husband caught them both together. Missy May could not understand why he did not leave her but she tried her best to still be good wife by not leaving and still playing the role of what a wife should be and for that Joe realized that marriage is the important factor within their union. The irony shows us that love has more power than the value of a gold coin.
The irony in "The Gilded Six Bits" was the fact that material things will never overcome love and change what it is. In fact, temptation is a factor that disclaims such a thought because of jealously and want, Missy gives in the temptation and ends up cheating to fill the new void she now had. Of course, she was caught by her husband but at the same time her husband did not leave her, but instead used his own time and ways in which to understand and get over the situation. In the end however, as much as materialistic things such as this gold coin will come into the way of love and cause a turmoil, it shows that true love can overcome the desires and greed of material things to satisfy and complete one's relationship.
I believe that the irony in “The Glided Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston is the fact that being Missy was materialistic enough to sacrifice the love she had for her husband, Joe, by cheating on him in order to receive a gold coin from Otis D. Slemmons and ironically enough the gold coin turns out to be fraudulent. It was in fact a gold-plated four-bit piece. And she was caught in the act of cheating by her husband. The irony shows us that true love over comes all because Missy and Joe overcomes the turmoil, greed and temptations that almost shattered their marriage in order to have a happy life.
Although missy may and Joes love is invaluable, missy almost looses everything all over a gold coin. Which ironically isn't even gold. But because of joes faith in her and her remorse about the whole situation, their marriage is saved in the end.
I believe the irony in the story “The Glided Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston was that Missy sacrificed her dignity and her her most valuable jewel to make her husband happy. In return the gold coin turned out to be fake and her marriage was almost done. Her husband ironically stayed with her even though he caught her in the act, and he showed her that love is not represented by materialistic things but by understanding and having faith.
In "The Gilded Six Bits", Huston displays irony in the story when Joe uses the same gilded quarters to buy her the candy that she so greedily used to pine for ,ironically displaying the whole incident of how she so greedily went after Slemmons.
The irony in this story to me was that her love for her husband was so great that she was willing to do anything to make him happy, this leading her to cheat on her husband in order to get him a gold coin that she was sure he would love, not realizing that the love they had for each other was far more precious than this gold, that at the turns out to not be real gold at all. Missy May almost completely destroyed her marriage trying to make her husband happy with something material, which was the gold, not realizing that what they had was more important. Luckily for her, her husband was able to forgive her.
In the short story "The Gilded Six Bits" Missie May and her husband Joe have dinner and after dinner he promise her that he's going to take her down to the new ice cream parlor. He tells her that the ice cream parlor owner is black and rich. Joe tells her that he is rich because he has one of those bellys that rich people can only get. Missie doesn't believe that he is rich and that it could all be a front to cover up that he is indeed not Rich. The irony in the story is that she believed that slemmons wasn't rich but end up sleeping with him so she can get money from him for Joe. But the gold coin she was chasing after wasn't worth much and she ends up jeopardizing her marriage.
The irony of the story is that no matter how much you love someone you should think twice because that choice that you make can destroy that love that you once had. Riches isn't everything in life. Missie May loved her husband so much that she was willing to do anything to keep him happy. Missie May husband wanted to be rich so he introduces his wife to slemmons who is a rich man who had a gold coin. Missie May ends up cheating on her husband by sleeping with slemmons because she wanted to get his money so her husband could be happy. Then Missie finds out that she committed the worst mistake of her life because slemmons wasn't that rich she thought he was. Missie May husband starts to question if that baby is his which ends up being his baby. Missie learns that no matter if you are poor or rich that person that you are with should take you just the way are which makes the love that you have for one another stronger.
The sweetest interaction between a husband and wife in the beginning of the short story showed how perfect things could be in a marriage. However that is quickly changed by betrayal and dishonestly. After cheating on her husband, Missie May was being punished because her husband was ignoring her and showed no love at all. One morning, Missie May finds the gold cold that was Slemmons slipped under her pillow. When she saw the gold coin, it made her realize that the “gold piece” is actually just a gilded silver coin. Her husband slipped the gilded coin under her pillow to pay her for his pleasure. As if she were a prostitute who must be paid for sex. The irony in the short story show greatly in this part, Missie May gave herself to a man she did not love and it turned out to be worth less. Later, she gave herself to her husband, the man she loved, in return she wanted nothing, but he gave to her the one thing he knew would hurt her the most, a gilded coin that represented the night she threw their relationship away. She even comments, “In fact the yellow coin in his trousers was like a monster hiding in the cave of his pockets to destroy her,” she slips it back into his pocket to show that she didn’t want anything from him. However in the end, the husband shows he still cares about her when he brings home the candy and throws the money against the door, continuing the routine from the beginning of the story.
An ironic moment in the story "The Gilded Six-Bits" was nearing the end of the story. Joe had been carrying around the tainted half-dollar in his pocket and he decided to go buy his wife the chocolate kisses he used to buy before. He goes to the store to buy it and tells the clerk the story about how he got the coin and how he wasn't fooled by the sweet talking man. I find it ironic because he was in fact fooled by the man but then he slept with his wife for the half-dollar and he's buying her favorite chocolate with the tainted money.
I think the irony in “The Glided Six Bits” is that Missy sacrificed her own happiness, her marraige with her husband, to give him happiness by sleeping with another man to give him the gold he wanted. Missy would do anything to make her husband happy so she did not see it as betrayal, she saw it as her sacrificing to make her husband happy. In return, Missy ended up causing problems with Joe by doing so and Joe felt betrayed. The gold ended up fake as well. The irony is that she loved her husband so much that she would ruin her own marriage just to make him happy.
In the story "The Gilded Six Bits" by Zora N. Hurston there is an importsnt literary device being used called irony. In the story a woman named Missy May decides to sleep with another man to accomplish the desires of her husband by giving him the things he wanted. She promise him that she would get the gold coin he wanted from Otis Slemmons. This shows irony since she is willing to scarifice anything to make her husband's wish come true. Before she sleeps with Slemmons to get the coin Joe, her husband explains to her how much her loves means to him and how nothing can get in their way of the love they have for each other. Once she slept with Slemmons she found out that the gold coin was fake. I know Missy May felt horrible sleeping with Slemmons after finding out the coin was fake. In her husband eyes it was a mistake that his wife slept with Slemmons since she did it for him to make him happy which causes him to forgive her.
A piece of irony that stood out to me in the story "The Gilded Six Bits" is the ending when the clerk turned to the next customer after Joe had left and said "Wisht I could be like these drakes. Laughing' all the time. Nothin' worries them." (58). The ironic moment here is that the clerk is completely unaware of the situation in which Joe had just passed through. He thinks that Joe is utterly content entering the store, wanting to by fifty-cents worth of kisses. what he does not know is that at one point Joe was broken. Dismantled because his wife Misse May had committed adultery. Sacrificing their love for the sake of the promise of Gold. The irony lies there. He assumes nothing worries them and laughter is forever there, unaware of the hurt that lies deep within.
Missie May and Joe already had a treasure far more valuable than gold, which was their love for each other. But Missie May almost lost that love in return of the gold coin from Otis Slemmon. She sleeps with Slemmon to get his gold coin but it turns out that the gold is fake. After Joe caught Missie sleeping with Slemmon you would think he would leave her given the fact that she got pregnant and they didn't know who was the father but his love for Missie and her repentance is what saved her marriage. And also when the baby was born and he saw the resemblance.
the irony is that "not everything that shines is gold" Missie was deceived by Otis, and Missie trowed away her relationship by sleeping with another man , when her relationship with her husband was authentic and priceless.I feel that Joe influenced her actions by desiring out-loud the gold of the Otis an by showing her off in front of a man that Joe knew loved women. Missie also was naive to think that there weren't going to be consequences so everybody have something to be blame for.
I find it ironic because he was in fact fooled by the man but then he slept with his wife for the half-dollar and he's buying her favorite chocolate with the tainted money. sms tracker
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ReplyDeleteThe irony in "The Gilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston is the wife Missie May who claims that she cheated on her husband Joe in order to give him a gold coin which she thought he would love. Although Missie May and Joe already possess a treasure far more valuable than gold: which is their love for each other. Ironically, Missie May nearly loses this love in return for the promise of a gold coin (which really isn't gold in the first place) the coin is actually found to be only a gilded half-dollar from Otis Slemmons. However, her repentance and Joe's faith in her save their marriage.
ReplyDeleteI think the irony in "The Gilded Six Bits" was how value over gold can't succeed over love. Missy May and Joe were happy but temptation occurred when Missy and Mr. Slemmons encountered in a pleasurable way she believed he would give her gold and it tempted her to lose her marriage for the value of gold and in the act the husband caught them both together. Missy May could not understand why he did not leave her but she tried her best to still be good wife by not leaving and still playing the role of what a wife should be and for that Joe realized that marriage is the important factor within their union. The irony shows us that love has more power than the value of a gold coin.
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The irony in "The Gilded Six Bits" was the fact that material things will never overcome love and change what it is. In fact, temptation is a factor that disclaims such a thought because of jealously and want, Missy gives in the temptation and ends up cheating to fill the new void she now had. Of course, she was caught by her husband but at the same time her husband did not leave her, but instead used his own time and ways in which to understand and get over the situation. In the end however, as much as materialistic things such as this gold coin will come into the way of love and cause a turmoil, it shows that true love can overcome the desires and greed of material things to satisfy and complete one's relationship.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the irony in “The Glided Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston is the fact that being Missy was materialistic enough to sacrifice the love she had for her husband, Joe, by cheating on him in order to receive a gold coin from Otis D. Slemmons and ironically enough the gold coin turns out to be fraudulent. It was in fact a gold-plated four-bit piece. And she was caught in the act of cheating by her husband. The irony shows us that true love over comes all because Missy and Joe overcomes the turmoil, greed and temptations that almost shattered their marriage in order to have a happy life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your response, I wrote something similar.
DeleteAlthough missy may and Joes love is invaluable, missy almost looses everything all over a gold coin. Which ironically isn't even gold. But because of joes faith in her and her remorse about the whole situation, their marriage is saved in the end.
ReplyDeleteI believe the irony in the story “The Glided Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston was that Missy sacrificed her dignity and her her most valuable jewel to make her husband happy. In return the gold coin turned out to be fake and her marriage was almost done. Her husband ironically stayed with her even though he caught her in the act, and he showed her that love is not represented by materialistic things but by understanding and having faith.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Gilded Six Bits", Huston displays irony in the story when Joe uses the same gilded quarters to buy her the candy that she so greedily used to pine for ,ironically displaying the whole incident of how she so greedily went after Slemmons.
ReplyDeleteThe irony in this story to me was that her love for her husband was so great that she was willing to do anything to make him happy, this leading her to cheat on her husband in order to get him a gold coin that she was sure he would love, not realizing that the love they had for each other was far more precious than this gold, that at the turns out to not be real gold at all. Missy May almost completely destroyed her marriage trying to make her husband happy with something material, which was the gold, not realizing that what they had was more important. Luckily for her, her husband was able to forgive her.
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DeleteIn the short story "The Gilded Six Bits" Missie May and her husband Joe have dinner and after dinner he promise her that he's going to take her down to the new ice cream parlor. He tells her that the ice cream parlor owner is black and rich. Joe tells her that he is rich because he has one of those bellys that rich people can only get. Missie doesn't believe that he is rich and that it could all be a front to cover up that he is indeed not Rich. The irony in the story is that she believed that slemmons wasn't rich but end up sleeping with him so she can get money from him for Joe. But the gold coin she was chasing after wasn't worth much and she ends up jeopardizing her marriage.
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ReplyDeleteThe irony of the story is that no matter how much you love someone you should think twice because that choice that you make can destroy that love that you once had. Riches isn't everything in life. Missie May loved her husband so much that she was willing to do anything to keep him happy. Missie May husband wanted to be rich so he introduces his wife to slemmons who is a rich man who had a gold coin. Missie May ends up cheating on her husband by sleeping with slemmons because she wanted to get his money so her husband could be happy. Then Missie finds out that she committed the worst mistake of her life because slemmons wasn't that rich she thought he was. Missie May husband starts to question if that baby is his which ends up being his baby. Missie learns that no matter if you are poor or rich that person that you are with should take you just the way are which makes the love that you have for one another stronger.
ReplyDeleteThe sweetest interaction between a husband and wife in the beginning of the short story showed how perfect things could be in a marriage. However that is quickly changed by betrayal and dishonestly. After cheating on her husband, Missie May was being punished because her husband was ignoring her and showed no love at all.
ReplyDeleteOne morning, Missie May finds the gold cold that was Slemmons slipped under her pillow. When she saw the gold coin, it made her realize that the “gold piece” is actually just a gilded silver coin. Her husband slipped the gilded coin under her pillow to pay her for his pleasure. As if she were a prostitute who must be paid for sex. The irony in the short story show greatly in this part, Missie May gave herself to a man she did not love and it turned out to be worth less. Later, she gave herself to her husband, the man she loved, in return she wanted nothing, but he gave to her the one thing he knew would hurt her the most, a gilded coin that represented the night she threw their relationship away. She even comments, “In fact the yellow coin in his trousers was like a monster hiding in the cave of his pockets to destroy her,” she slips it back into his pocket to show that she didn’t want anything from him. However in the end, the husband shows he still cares about her when he brings home the candy and throws the money against the door, continuing the routine from the beginning of the story.
An ironic moment in the story "The Gilded Six-Bits" was nearing the end of the story. Joe had been carrying around the tainted half-dollar in his pocket and he decided to go buy his wife the chocolate kisses he used to buy before. He goes to the store to buy it and tells the clerk the story about how he got the coin and how he wasn't fooled by the sweet talking man. I find it ironic because he was in fact fooled by the man but then he slept with his wife for the half-dollar and he's buying her favorite chocolate with the tainted money.
ReplyDeleteI think the irony in “The Glided Six Bits” is that Missy sacrificed her own happiness, her marraige with her husband, to give him happiness by sleeping with another man to give him the gold he wanted. Missy would do anything to make her husband happy so she did not see it as betrayal, she saw it as her sacrificing to make her husband happy. In return, Missy ended up causing problems with Joe by doing so and Joe felt betrayed. The gold ended up fake as well. The irony is that she loved her husband so much that she would ruin her own marriage just to make him happy.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "The Gilded Six Bits" by Zora N. Hurston there is an importsnt literary device being used called irony. In the story a woman named Missy May decides to sleep with another man to accomplish the desires of her husband by giving him the things he wanted. She promise him that she would get the gold coin he wanted from Otis Slemmons. This shows irony since she is willing to scarifice anything to make her husband's wish come true. Before she sleeps with Slemmons to get the coin Joe, her husband explains to her how much her loves means to him and how nothing can get in their way of the love they have for each other. Once she slept with Slemmons she found out that the gold coin was fake. I know Missy May felt horrible sleeping with Slemmons after finding out the coin was fake. In her husband eyes it was a mistake that his wife slept with Slemmons since she did it for him to make him happy which causes him to forgive her.
ReplyDeleteA piece of irony that stood out to me in the story "The Gilded Six Bits" is the ending when the clerk turned to the next customer after Joe had left and said "Wisht I could be like these drakes. Laughing' all the time. Nothin' worries them." (58). The ironic moment here is that the clerk is completely unaware of the situation in which Joe had just passed through. He thinks that Joe is utterly content entering the store, wanting to by fifty-cents worth of kisses. what he does not know is that at one point Joe was broken. Dismantled because his wife Misse May had committed adultery. Sacrificing their love for the sake of the promise of Gold. The irony lies there. He assumes nothing worries them and laughter is forever there, unaware of the hurt that lies deep within.
ReplyDeleteMissie May and Joe already had a treasure far more valuable than gold, which was their love for each other. But Missie May almost lost that love in return of the gold coin from Otis Slemmon. She sleeps with Slemmon to get his gold coin but it turns out that the gold is fake. After Joe caught Missie sleeping with Slemmon you would think he would leave her given the fact that she got pregnant and they didn't know who was the father but his love for Missie and her repentance is what saved her marriage. And also when the baby was born and he saw the resemblance.
ReplyDeletethe irony is that "not everything that shines is gold" Missie was deceived by Otis, and Missie trowed away her relationship by sleeping with another man , when her relationship with her husband was authentic and priceless.I feel that Joe influenced her actions by desiring out-loud the gold of the Otis an by showing her off in front of a man that Joe knew loved women. Missie also was naive to think that there weren't going to be consequences so everybody have something to be blame for.
ReplyDeleteI think the irony in "The Gilded Six Bits" was how value over gold can't succeed over love.
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I find it ironic because he was in fact fooled by the man but then he slept with his wife for the half-dollar and he's buying her favorite chocolate with the tainted money.
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