Overview
Character Name
Pumpkin
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Lead
Time & Place
Detroit, Michigan, in a small black community known as Black Bottom on the downtown strip known as Paradise Valley. Paradise Club, 1949.
Analysis
Pumpkin is the caretaker of the Paradise Club. The club is not only a club but also offers room and board, so, Pumpkin is the cook, the waitress, the bartender, and the housekeeper, and she’s good at it. She is sweet and kind and loves poetry. She is constantly memorizing
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