The_Pocketbook_Game

The Pocketbook Game In the short story "The Pocketbook Game" was about this black woman named Mildred ,who was carrying a conversation with her friend Marge about a situation involving Mrs.E…., a lady she works for. Mildred tells Marge how Mrs. E….always holds her pocketbook close to her every time she is around. So Mildred tells Marge how she got back at Mrs.E… One day Mrs E. told Mildred to do something so Mildred purposely left her purse behind and waited outside for a couple of minutes and then knocked on the door rapidly and yelled "I forgot my purse." She held it close to her just like Mrs.E… would always do. So mrs.E felt ashamed and tried to apologize, but Mildred interrupted her saying if mildred, mrs, situation, pocketbook, passage, marge, blacks, black, until, tried, theme, tells, purse, proven, people, mrs, judge, innocent, guilty, common, close, basis, always, about, yet, yelled, works, woman, waited, typical, told, today, time, through, teaches, subjected, story, steal, something, society, skin, should, short, says, saying, regular, rapidly, purposely, problem, prejudging