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... actually writing autobiographical fiction, but negating it immediately. It continues describing the problems concerning autobiographical fiction occurring with friends. The last paragraph, being the shortest and the most direct, concludes the entire topic and basically states that the narrator's family and friends are more important to her than writing autobiographical fiction. She mentions that it would "do no good" in any case since she claims that she lies a lot anyways, so her autobiographical fiction would end up as "straight-up" fiction. The reader is quite effectively and quickly made aware of the world that the narrator lives in. Several obvious clues describe the setting to be Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s. The 1940s was one of several time periods, where black people had very few rights. This could be the cause for the lack of education for the narrator and therefore the crude and unpolished language. The fact that Brooklyn was ...