Did you ever notice how people with similar attitudes don’t get along? It’s quite confusing because one would think that if you knew someone who was just like you, you would get along. Never do they see themselves in each other but hate each other’s most common qualities. And for some unusual reason when they actually do become aware of their “common” qualities they automatically change. Using the lame cliché line of “I didn’t know that how I looked [to others]”. Although very hypocritical one would call that an epiphany, which is exactly what character Willie from play “Master Harold”…and the boys had.
Still very young hearted and easily influenced Willie seems to have gone through a lot internally over the course of the play. Set in the 1950’s Willie is employed at a Tea Room owned by Hally and his mother. Willie whom is African American works there with his …show more content…
From insulting Willie claiming that he is “a bit slow in the uptake” to directly spitting in Sam’s face, it’s easy to say no one would want to be Hally. Except that’s the catch, Willie is Hally. Both men have raging tempers, Hally yell's and degrades others while Willie is a women beater. Along with having raging tempers in common they both lack common sense. The common sense of realizing that hurting others only hurts you in the end.
Both men assume that by hurting others they make situations better or more in their favor which is highly false. Willie beats his girlfriend who also is the mother of his child simply because she doesn’t get the steps rights in a dance routine. A dance routine to a competition that Willie will participates and hopefully wins. And Hally seems to go into a “hulk mode” stage of rage simply because his alcoholic father is being released from the hospital. Things neither man can change, they lash out due to fear, fear that they will lose, fear that they won’t matter
Still very young hearted and easily influenced Willie seems to have gone through a lot internally over the course of the play. Set in the 1950’s Willie is employed at a Tea Room owned by Hally and his mother. Willie whom is African American works there with his …show more content…
From insulting Willie claiming that he is “a bit slow in the uptake” to directly spitting in Sam’s face, it’s easy to say no one would want to be Hally. Except that’s the catch, Willie is Hally. Both men have raging tempers, Hally yell's and degrades others while Willie is a women beater. Along with having raging tempers in common they both lack common sense. The common sense of realizing that hurting others only hurts you in the end.
Both men assume that by hurting others they make situations better or more in their favor which is highly false. Willie beats his girlfriend who also is the mother of his child simply because she doesn’t get the steps rights in a dance routine. A dance routine to a competition that Willie will participates and hopefully wins. And Hally seems to go into a “hulk mode” stage of rage simply because his alcoholic father is being released from the hospital. Things neither man can change, they lash out due to fear, fear that they will lose, fear that they won’t matter