Shorty-Lee Character Analysis in Gang Leader for a Day

A young member of the BKs, Shorty-Lee agrees to run a group of “registrars” through Robert Taylor, asking for official “votes” from residents. When Shorty-Lee confronts one woman at her apartment, however, it is revealed that he has confused voter registration (the woman is already officially registered with the city) with voter coercion. Shorty-Lee abandons the voting drive soon thereafter.

Shorty-Lee Quotes in Gang Leader for a Day

The Gang Leader for a Day quotes below are all either spoken by Shorty-Lee or refer to Shorty-Lee. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Shorty-Lee was puzzled. He looked over to the three other BKs. They were toting spiral-bound notebooks in which they “signed up” potential votes. But it seemed that neither Lenny nor JT had told them there was an actual registration form and that registrars had to be licensed.

Related Characters: Sudhir Venkatesh (speaker), JT, Lenny Duster, Shorty-Lee

Page Number and Citation: 79

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