Pudd’nhead Wilson

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl” (Shirley Chisholm). The quote before pertains to one of Mark Twain’s characters named Roxana, or Roxy for short. Born into slavery, Roxy, however could pass as a white person if it were not for her speech. In the beginning Roxy gives birth to a boy he same day her Master’s wife delivers their child, also a boy. The new addition to her Master’s family, Percy Driscoll, is Thomas a Beckett Driscoll. Roxy names her child Valet de Chambers. In Pudd’nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain, Roxy is portrayed as motherly, tough, and resourceful.

Roxy like any other mother shows a maternal side. Being a slave there is always the threat of worse places to be. In Roxy’s case the worst place to be enslaved is down the river.