Beauty, Class, and Color (BCC): Intertwined Issues in Olive Senior’s Short Story, The Two Grand-mothers

The present article analyses how the themes of beauty, class, and color (BCC) are intertwined in the short story, The Two grandmothers, by the Jamaican woman writer, Olive Senior. First, it sets the socio-historical context of the short story. Then, it examines the significance and impact of the issues of beauty, class, and color in the lives of women through a girl-child narrator. The aim of the study is to expose the historical inter-relatedness of the three themes and their psychological impact on the female characters.Relying on two theoretical approaches,namely postcolonialism and psychoanalysis, the study demonstrates theintertwinement of the triple theme. The findings show thatevoking one issue implies dealing with the other two, because of their historical interconnection.