SOURCE: “Creative Prejudice in Ann Petry's Miss Muriel,” in Studies of Short Fiction, Vol. 31, Fall, 1994, pp. 667–73.
In the following essay, Holladay suggests that the social prejudices seen in the suitors in “Miss Muriel” may actually act as creative forces in a world in which various forms of prejudice create people's social milieu.
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