benefactor pays her fine, but upon her return to her house she finds the home being remodeled. Some time after, the narrator gets a job in an upscale clothier, lying about her credentials in the process. During a party at her co-worker's house she - having given up singing - whistles the Holloway song, which attracts the attention of a man at the party. The man plays a jazzed-up version of her song on a borrowed piano; the narrator dislikes this, stating it is being played wrong and feeling that her source of resiliency has been warped. However, the other guests like the new song. Later, the narrator receives a thank-you note and £5 from the man, who writes that he has sold the song and that she was "quite a help" inspiring him. She is initially horrified, grieving that the song - a symbol of her struggle - was the only thing she had. However, she eventually concludes that the song was sung for her, and that, no matter how the song is played now, it will make no difference to the song she heard. With this in mind, she muses that people can play it how they like and 'let them call it jazz', and buys a dress with the money. Description "Let Them Call It Jazz" is one of the short stories Jean Rhys' wrote at Cheriton Fitzpaine during her absence from the literary spotlight. The story was first published in The London Magazine in 1962, and later appeared with other of Rhys' short stories in her 1968 compilation Tigers Are Better-Looking. Many sources describe the story as a work of postcolonial literature. Originally published in print, the short story was adapted into a radio-play by Winsome Pinnock for BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Jamaican writer Honor Ford-Smith also created a dramatic adaptation of Rhys' story. Themes The story's themes include cultural exchange, cultural identity, the Caribbean diaspora, sexism, racism, and colonialism. References 1962 short stories Works originally published in The London Magazine