Driving Miss Daisy's Love Of Love Character Analysis

Driving Miss Daisy explores the unlikely friendship between Daisy Werthan and her driver Hoke. When Daisy wrecks her car, her son Boolie, decides to hire a driver for his elderly mother. He hires a black driver named Hoke to take his mother wherever she wants to go. Daisy is apprehensive at first of letting Hoke drive her around and wants to maintain her independence, but eventually Daisy gives in. Once Daisy begins to spend time with Hoke she comes to find comfort in his company and their friendship blossoms. Daisy teaches Hoke to read and in return he shows her the importance of good people to stand up in the face of evil. As the years pass and the pair grow older Daisy shows signs of dementia and is taken to an home for the elderly. Although Hoke no longer works for Daisy he continues to visit her while she is in the home. Driving Miss Daisy effectively portrays Freud’s defense mechanisms, companionate love, and neuroscience phenomena. Freud’s defense mechanism of denial is present in Daisy when the Ku Klux Klan blow up the Temple she …show more content…
There are three components that make up love: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Depending on which of these components are present at a given time it results into whether the couple experience one of the eight types of love in their relationship. Companionate love, as in Driving Miss Daisy, is a mixture of the aspects of intimacy and commitment in a relationship. Hoke and Daisy experience an intimate relationship due their feelings of connectedness as shown when Hoke is able to calm her hysterics. They also exhibit commitment to the relationship because they stay together for decades even after Hoke no longer drives Daisy around. This exemplifies Sternberg’s theory of companionate love because they share a high level of intimacy and commitment without feeling passionate towards each