“A STUDY OF STRUGGLE AND DEFEAT OF WOMEN IN ANN PETRY’S THE STREET”

Ann Lane Petry was a prolific African American writer. Female protagonists and their issues are major in her writing. The Street was an outstanding achievement of Ann Lane Petry in African American literature that published in 1946. This novel explores the African-American woman’s struggle for find a place in their society. It also explores different aspects of urban life. This novel set in Harlem in the 1940s. It discussed the difficulties of a single woman and mother. Ann Lane Petry very beautifully described the black and white American experience in her novels. The Street was a strong social commentary on disappoint of black urban life in the 1940s. It was well appreciated and successful novel by Ann Lane Petry. The Street particularly explored the black female struggle in African American women creative efforts. Ann Lane Petry’s main purpose was to interpret this struggle from a feminist perspective. The Street was a masterwork that revealed urban black life as African American fiction