• X. Christiana Lobo

Mostly uses animal symbolism to give us insight into character’s personalities. He uses several different animal images to define moments in Easy’s character arc. The first is the jay perched on the fence, which tantalizes the neighbor’s vicious dog. He sees himself in the bird; he has all the means to fly-to achieve the independence and joy to which he aspires-but finds himself both paralyzed and mesmerized by the thrills of crime, mystery, and danger. While he waits in the interrogation room at the police station, he finds himself drawn to the dead mouse in the corner. At first, he sees himself as the mouse, cornered by the catlike Miller and Mason. When Easy regains his sense of pride and thirst for justice, he imagines that he mouse is Mason, whom he ‘crushes so that his whole suit is soiled and shapeless in the corner; his eyes come out of his head’. He again puts himself in relation to an animal in his dream about the catfish. The catfish, which is larger-than-life, represents the big dreams he has of being a homeowner and a professional success. He has hooked the catfish just as he has taken the first steps in getting what he wants. Yet the catfish eludes him, just as his dream of financial security does as well, until the end of the novel. Devil in a Blue Dress, walter mostly kicked open a new door in crime fiction he has described his books as ‘emotional histories of the heart and soul of black America’ and has said that Easy is ‘a black man talking to everyone’. certainly, mostly makes us question what goodness, justice and criminality men when the American dream has never been within a man’s grasp.

GENDER EQUALITY IN WALTER MOSLEY’S DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS

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