Discussing “Mother Catherine”

From “The Complete Stories” collection.

This is more of a description of the narrator's encounter with a very unique religious leader than a traditional short story. Hurston paints this vivid picture of a very unorthodox religious leader and her world inside her tent. I think this is a merger of all the religious leaders Hurston encountered in her anthropological journey. This is an interesting read and shows Hurston's ability to create a very vivid world in her words.

More discussions of Hurston's short stories.

• Discussing The Bone of Contention
• Discussing John Redding Goes to Sea
• Discussing The Conversion of Sam
• Discussing A Bit of Our Harlem
• Discussing Drenched in Light
• Discussing Spunk
• Discussing Black Death
• Discussing Book of Harlem
• Discussing Magnolia Flower
• Discussing Muttsy
• Discussing Sweat
• Discussing Under the Bridge
• Discussing Possum or Pig
• Discussing The Gilded Six-Bits with Marci and Ako of The Colored Pages Book Club
• Discussing the Eatonville Anthology
• Discussing The Country in the Woman with Alicia the Pretty Brown Eye Reader
• Discussing – The Book of Harlem
• Discussing – The Back Room
• Discussing – Monkey Junk
• Discussing – The Fire and the Cloud
• Discussing – She Rock
• Discussing – Uncle Monday
• Discussing – Cock Robin Beale Street
• Discussing – The Story of Harlem Slang
• Discussing – High John De Conquer
• Discussing – Hurricane
• Discussing – The Conscience of the Court
• Discussing – Escape from Pharaoh by Zora Neale Hurston