Intro to Fiction Test #1 -- various authors (Poe, Kincaid, Neale Hurston)

#1 Using examples from the reading, describe the role of the catalyst. What journeys were made possible because of the intervention of the catalyst. The role of the catalyst -is to cause an important event to happen; one possessing or exercising power of influence or authority. In Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk, we see a man, Joe, who does not like that his wife just let Spunk take her away from him. He does little or nothing …

…blind and the thought of his eye just gawking making him feel as if old man is "looking through him". Also when the narrator was talking about how he could stare at him while he slept and when the man sprang up in his bed asking Who's there, gives you the rounded conception that this man cannot see. If he could have seen he would have gotten out of his bed to investigate his surroundings.