Abstract
Brown Girl, Brownstones, Paule Marshall tells story of Boyces, a workingclass Barbadian immigrant family struggling to create a home in United States during Depression and World War II. Silla Boyce and her fellow Bajans are part of what Carol Boyce Davies calls the first wave of Caribbean migration to US (60), and as recent immigrants, they struggle to gain acceptance in a culture characterized by property and status, buying into a predominantly white, middle-class vision of American Dream. Sadly, belief in this mythic American Dream has devastating effects for most of characters in text; Marshall's awareness of destructive aspects of US class system permeates novel. She holds capitalism responsible for multiple tragedies in lives of her black workingclass characters, and I will discuss ways in which novel both engages class issues and critiques capitalist ideology. However, I further plan to link Marshall's treatment of class and capitalism to Brown Girl's specific historical context, because although much of story takes place during World War II and years immediately preceding it, Marshall wrote novel during early years of Cold War. A materialist ethic of success became cultural
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