Summary

Ruby Turpin and her husband are in a small doctor’s office. Mrs. Turpin begins looking around the room and sees a myriad of people: a respectable woman and her fat daughter, a trashy woman and her son, and an elderly woman who is the mother of the trashy woman. She strikes up a conversation with the respectable-looking woman, and they talk about how important it is to have a good disposition and to be grateful for things they have been given from God. The fat girl named Mary Grace begins glaring at Mrs. Turpin, and Mrs. Turpin tries to ignore her.

The two women begin discussing farming, and the trashy woman interjects. She says how she hates black people and wishes they would go back to Africa. Mrs. Turpin says she’s glad God made her a white woman, and Mary Grace hurls a college...