American culture and the popular norm view New Orleans as a wild, uncultured, vivacious, and eccentric; a city without rules, and where you can party and drink till the sun rises. A city where the lines are blurred, and you can find people and characters like no other. In many respects, media and popular culture portray New Orleans accurately, capturing some unique events and people on film or bringing the culture to life in movies. “The Princess and the Frog” showed a lot of the bayou, which is essentially the entire area surrounding New Orleans, and the geography is a very important aspect of the city. It additionally highlighted an important attribute of the city: voodoo. While voodoo is definitely a part of the New Orleans culture, voodoo
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Brite, Brite outlines and brings forth the corruption problems in New Orleans that are congruent with specific social classes and how the issue is prevalent today. The New Orleans upper class holds and practices their control over the lower class, and any of those who try to step in their way. The social hierarchy is heavily corrupted which trickles down and affects other classes as a result. The police are nearly useless in the battle for social justice, because of how much power the upper class holds. They control the money flow, and Brite shows how much money really talks.
Brite uses Milford and his family to display the lowest class and the ones who are the most affected by upper-class corruption. They are the ones who have constantly been pushed around and have little power or control over their own lives, whether they’re aware of that or not. G-man, Rickey, and the other guys in the kitchen are considered middle class. They all work at a very high-end restaurant and are talented at what they do. Rickey and G-man explicitly acknowledge how fortunate they are to not be in the lowest class like Milford is, and how they are very lucky to have had the chances they did to rise in social status and become great chefs at such a popular restaurant. Lenny, Eileen, Fairbairn, and Lamotte are the upper class and hold all the power. Lamotte has the power over Rickey’s pills and his pain, Eileen had control of Milford, and Lenny owns the restaurant that Rickey and G-man manage. Fairbairn’s hands are dipped in many pots, and while he doesn’t consistently have power over anyone mentioned in the book, he has the power to affect any one of the middle and lower class people at the touch of a button. He was able to have Milford’s sister fired, and funded for an expensive kitchen to keep track of
Brite, Brite outlines and brings forth the corruption problems in New Orleans that are congruent with specific social classes and how the issue is prevalent today. The New Orleans upper class holds and practices their control over the lower class, and any of those who try to step in their way. The social hierarchy is heavily corrupted which trickles down and affects other classes as a result. The police are nearly useless in the battle for social justice, because of how much power the upper class holds. They control the money flow, and Brite shows how much money really talks.
Brite uses Milford and his family to display the lowest class and the ones who are the most affected by upper-class corruption. They are the ones who have constantly been pushed around and have little power or control over their own lives, whether they’re aware of that or not. G-man, Rickey, and the other guys in the kitchen are considered middle class. They all work at a very high-end restaurant and are talented at what they do. Rickey and G-man explicitly acknowledge how fortunate they are to not be in the lowest class like Milford is, and how they are very lucky to have had the chances they did to rise in social status and become great chefs at such a popular restaurant. Lenny, Eileen, Fairbairn, and Lamotte are the upper class and hold all the power. Lamotte has the power over Rickey’s pills and his pain, Eileen had control of Milford, and Lenny owns the restaurant that Rickey and G-man manage. Fairbairn’s hands are dipped in many pots, and while he doesn’t consistently have power over anyone mentioned in the book, he has the power to affect any one of the middle and lower class people at the touch of a button. He was able to have Milford’s sister fired, and funded for an expensive kitchen to keep track of