Night Women Summary

The reader is told that there are two kinds of women: night women (prostitutes) and day women (those who run a household in the typical sense and who operate by day).The narrator, a twenty-five-year-old prostitute, considers herself to be in between. While she does have sex for money with "suitors" who visit her, she is doing it because the deep love she has for her young son. Because they are poor, she lives and sleeps in the same one-room house with her son, and she is constantly fighting to protect her son from the reality of what she does. She has divided the room into two with sheer curtains. She makes sure her son sleeps with a radio and earphones on so any sounds of lovemaking do not disturb him. Plus, the prostitute frequently caresses her son's face and lovingly...