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The Gilded Six-Bits is a story full of love, betrayal, and forgiveness.

Shave and a haircut, six-bits.

The Gilded Six-Bits symbolizes the meaning of a true marriage and the truth that lies underneath its meaning.

The Gilded Six-Bits was influenced by her educational endeavors in anthropology and her unsuccessful marriage with Herbert Sheen.

The Gilded Six-Bits is now published in Hurston's compilation of short stories entitled Spunk in which it is now considered one of her best stories.

The Gilded Six-Bits is a 1933 short story written by Zora Neale Hurston, who is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of 20th-century African-American history.

The Gilded Six-Bits opens up with the description of a house, in which was described as "It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement.

The Gilded Six-Bits: The short story was coincidentally published the year the United States went off the gold standard and Franklin D. Roosevelt asked loyal Americans to exchange their gold for silver and paper money.

The movie of the The Gilded Six-Bits is based on the actual story of a happy couple whose life is disrupted when a fancy hustler played by Wendell Pierce comes to town enticing Missy Mae played by T'keyah Crystal Keymah with the promise of gold.