Quotes From The Piano Lesson

In The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, readers can see Berniece struggle to let the piano go, which affects Boy Willie from buying Sutter’s land. In this play there are some religious aspects, some of which who say are attached to the piano. Boy Willie struggles to see the piano more than just an item which is in their house, he fails to see the emotional attachment within the piano, and struggles to utilize it correctly. In this play, Boy Willie comes from Mississippi all the way to Pittsburgh to see his sister Berniece, and the rest of his family. He comes in almost-always breaking-down truck, which was filled with watermelons, in hope to sell them all to make some money in order to buy Sutter’s land. Once he gets to his sister's home, it …show more content…
Everything Boy Willie’s trying to do with the piano is to try and buy Sutter’s land, who just died by “falling into a well.” He has to sell his watermelons in order to start saving some money, and try to convince his sister to give him the piano to get the other half of the money to buy one hundred acres of Sutter’s land. Boy Willie continuously argues back and forth with his sister about the piano, which they do not feel the same way about, they each have different views on what is to become of the piano. Boy Willie is just too caught up in wanting to buy the piano truly symbolizes, or how to utilize it correctly. He doesn’t care for the sentimental value of the piano, and just, most-likely, does not realize the main importance of it, meanwhile Bernice has it as a memory of her parents. Boy Willie understands that and says, “every time I hear someone say my daddy’s name, I take my hat off in respect,” readers are able to see the difference between the two, but see how Boy Willie doesn’t fully see or understand hot to utilize it to its fullest