The Lesson Character Analysis: Sylvia

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or Monopoly papers we lay on the grocer" (378).
Webster Dictionary defines blunt as being abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech. Sylvia is defiantly abrupt and frank with her speech throughout "The Lesson", for example; "we kinda hated her too, hated the way we did the winos who cluttered up or parks and pissed on our handball walls and stank up or hallways and stairs so you couldn't halfway play hide-and-seek without a goddamn gas mask" (377). Another example is "we on Fifth Avenue and everybody dressed up in stockings. One lady in a fur coat, hot as it is." "White folks crazy" (378). On page 380 Sylvia is angry at Miss Moore, "If you gonna mess up a perfectly good swim day least you could do is have some answers." On page 381 "Messin up my day with this shit." With this type of character trait the reader becomes amerced into the story because the language is captivatingly real. There are people in the world that grew up in the "slums" and heard this kind of blunt ...

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