The Conjure Woman The first half of Charles W. Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman begins with the interaction between a Northern white male and the conventional portrayal of a slave. In the novel an old ex-plantation slave, Julius, recounts stories that he says he heard as a child. The audience of the stories is the white Northern male, who is the narrator of the story, and his sickly wife, Annie. The stories are told for many purposes but my favorite reason behind the telling of the tales is Julius' attempt and in most cases achievement to acquire several things by this...
be seen in brand new Sunday clothes and there is no way that he could have purchased them so it is obvious that he received clothes from the deal he struck up with the man selling the horse.

The events discussed above only touch briefly on reason for telling of these stories, but I found it interesting that Julius always profits by telling the stories. In Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjurer Woman Julius seems very similar to the Brer Rabbit in Uncle Remus in the fact that both are cunning and sneaky to get things to go their way.