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Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. The In her representation of violence, the victim's pain is defined only through negation, her agony experienced only in the reader's imagination: Lorraine was no longer conscious of the pain in her spine or stomach. residents of Brewster Place are forced out, and the block is condemned. In Mattie's dream of the block party, even Ciel, who knows nothing of Lorraine, admits that she has dreamed of "a woman who was supposed to be me She didn't look exactly like me, but inside I felt it was me.". Recognizing that pain defies representation, Naylor invokes a referential system that focuses on the bodily manifestations of painskinned arms, a split rectum, a bloody skullonly to reject it as ineffective. Describe the telephone prank that John and Lorraine play on Mr. Pignati. It would be simple to make a case for the unflattering portrayal of men in this novel; in fact Naylor was concerned that her work would be seen as deliberately slighting of men: there was something that I was very self-conscious about with my first novel; I bent over backwards not to have a negative message come through about the men. By denying the reader the freedom to observe the victim of violence from behind the wall of aesthetic convention, to manipulate that victim as an object of imaginative play, Naylor disrupts the connection between violator and viewer that Mulvey emphasizes in her discussion of cinematic convention. Inviting the viewer to enter the world of violence that lurks just beyond the wall of art, Naylor traps the reader behind that wall. is about the entire community. When the sun began to warm the air and the horizon brightened, she still lay there, her mouth crammed with paper bag, her dress pushed up under her breasts, her bloody pantyhose hanging from her thighs." Kiswana, an outsider on Brewster Place, is constantly dreaming of ways in which she can organize the residents and enact social reform. Naylor uses many symbols in The Women of Brewster Place. "Does it matter?" Mattie's dream expresses the communal guilt, complicity, and anger that the women of Brewster Place feel about Lorraine.