Chauffeur

vigorous and sometimes pompous and stilted. Whatever it is they subtly delineate character. Both her African American plays A Raisin in the Sun and The Drinking Gourd amply demonstrate the fact. In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee, an uneducated chauffeur is highly pessimistic at the beginning of the play. He keeps on lamenting his plight and his language poetically demonstrates the fact. He tells Murchison: “Here I am a giant—surrounded by ants! Ants who can’t even understand what it is the…

changing their mind about segregation, African Americans were changing their mind about accepting it. In the play A Raisin In The Sun, which was written in 1959, racism is very much still obvious. In a part of the movie Walter Younger is working as a chauffeur for a rich white man. While his car is parked right in front of another black man’s car, a police officer gives the black man’s car a ticket, while the white man’s car does not get a ticket, obviously because he is white. This shows…

In the 1950’s it was a big responsibility to become the man of the house, it was a position respected by many young boys, and it was an expectation that when a boy’s father died that they would become man of the house. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, Walter Younger, a man who just lost his father, wants desperately to fill the role that his father had. As the only man living in a house with three women; his mother, sister, and pregnant wife, Walter Younger struggles with wanting…

Selfish. Desperate. Ambitious. When the opportunity is taken right under from someone's feet, it can be conceded, eager and even hard working depending on the opportunity given. In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry shows how the struggle was for a colored man in the 1950s to not be successful. Walter Lee Younger, a defiant, selfish, dream chaser, who does not feel validated, and who's never listened too, but will do anything to help his family live happier. The goal Walter wants for him…

The Great Essay Although F.Scott Fitzgerald 's story The Great Gatsby has similarities to both Clayton’s and Luhrmann’s visual preference of the story; There are many things that make each of them unique and individual. For example, when Daisy tells Gatsby how she loves him but also Tom, the costumes that the characters wear are meaningful, and when Gatsby got shot by Mr. Wilson, these come together to create its greater complexity. They all have something in common, but they were made by a…

The Expansion of Law Enforcement American policing systems today seem organized and strict to the point where many people have criticized the police for excessive militarization. The arsenals found in some police departments are often excessive, expensive, and unneeded. Those police forces are akin to the standing armies that our founding fathers feared. In England, it was common practice for criminals to be pardoned in exchange for military service. Often, these criminals were quartered in…

Portrayal of the Older Adult in the Humanities In today’s world, there is a great misunderstanding about the aging process and a plethora of associated myths. Many people have a jaded view of aging and the elderly in general, which may be attributed to the false portrayals and stereotyping of the population in media platforms such as movies, television shows, and novels. There is a great disconnect between the current generations, which is even more concerning in our “aging society”, meaning…

Tyler The first item we see is a telephone. Several times in the book, we see Gatsby step aside from the events in the book to take phone calls, for example, “‘He has to telephone,’ said Mr. Wolfshiem” that we really don’t know who they are from, however, we can imply that it has something to do with his behind-the-scenes work. The second object that is presented is the Car. By this point, we know that it was Gatsby who deliberately drove the car into Myrtle, killing her, as quoted by the…

In the play, A Raisin In The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger and Mama’s identities conflict with their success. Walter is a poor black man in Southside Chicago in the 50’s, while Mama is someone who has lived close to the affects of slavery. Both of these identities keep Walter and Mama from getting what they want from life, causing conflict with their success. Walter’s identity as a poor, black man in Southside Chicago conflicts with his success because during that time period,…

In Lorraine Hansberry’s, A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee’s character and actions are greatly influenced by women in his life. Within a typical family during the 1950s, males were seen as the alpha of the household; however, women were always there to keep men grounded. Women have a certain perspective that men can never see, so their presence helps males see situations in different ways. Women also give insight to men on the heavy decisions and responsibilities they have to make as the…