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 to defend his self as a man and get his woman back. But the townspeople are the catalyst in the story, edging and pushing for Joe to stand up like a man when they say…