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Jessie Redmon Fauset, one of the distinguished writers of the Harlem Renaissance, explores the miserable plight of the African-Americans owing to racial injustice, in her literary creations. Being a multi-faceted personality, she adorns the literary arena with her literary acumen. She has employed classic literary styles in her works that make her works more impressive and unique. Angela Murray, the protagonist of Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral is a coloured woman who desires for comfort, security, prestige, and sophistication in her life. She undergoes a series of transformations in her life to acquire the status of a “white.”