Of Racism In Guess Who's Coming To Dinner And Going To Meet The Man

In the film, Guess who’s coming to dinner and in the story, Going to meet the man. Both of them approach the subject of racism. However, the way that racism is approached by these two stories is different from each other. One shows racism in a more violent and aggressive light. When the other has a more subtle approach of the subject, without any real violence being committed. Nevertheless, racism is showed through out in both stories, but you could never confuse these stories. Their approaches of racism is very different. In going to meet the man, Jesse, the main character. Is a white men, who has a white wife. And the whole story is about things that happened to him and his memories about it. The story doesn't has any black characters that are actually treated with the same amount of story time like Jesse. The black characters are just a plot device to Jesse’s story, never more than that. Like the black man who was lynched and Jesse watched, when a child. He talks how theirs eyes meet right before the man died, everything is from Jesse’s point of view. We don’t really know anything about that man. And his last moments alive, where used to make a point in Jesse’s story. …show more content…
We know exactly what’s going on in the minds of the black characters, because they say it out aloud. Like when Tillie, the maid, expresses her feelings about John Prentice. She tells him how she thinks he wants to be more than he should be, that she doesn’t like him and doesn’t want him to marry Joey. The feelings of the black characters are as important as the feelings of the white characters. Everyone’s opinions is shown. The movie may talk about racism, it may have racist characters, but it doesn't disregard the black characters. It gives them equal