After You My Dear Alphonse

After you, my dear Alphonse!
In the summer of 1943, during World warfare II, the tension between blacks and whites in America were escalating. This was the year that Shirley capital of Mississippi wrote After you, my dear Alphonse. This story gives us a very good understanding of what is really the terms for being a racist, and how it is only adults a childish way like racialism affects. In this story a white womans, what seems to be generous behavior, is reviled as a racist with a settle attitude.
There are three characters in this short story, Mrs. Wilson, Boyd and greyback. Mrs. Wilson is the principal(prenominal) character in the story, or, that depends on how you interpret it, but she is the whizz worth noticing. Johnny is her son. He is good friends with Boyd, who is African American. The ii boys are young, since they do not get Mrs. Wilsons odd behavior later on in the story.
Mrs. Wilson, just finishing bake gingerbread, hears her son Johnny arriving at home with his friend, Boyd, who is a objet dart smaller than Johnny. Boyd is carrying some wood, which they pretend is dead Japanese, and Mrs. Wilson reprimands Johnny for not helping his friend with carrying the wood. Mrs. Wilson invites Boyd to join them for lunch. Johnny and Boyd act by nature with one another, but Mrs.



Wilson is suddenly very pushy and starts inquire about Boyds family. Mrs. Wilson starts to ask Boyd about the profession of his father, when Johnny responds that he works at a factory. Mrs. Wilson immediately assumes that Boyds father is a hardworking man, who has to lift a locoweed of heavy stuff. When Boyd says, that in fact, he is a foreman, Mrs. Wilson hesitates. Mrs. Wilson also questions why Boyds mother does not work, but Johnny clams her, and points out that she too does not work. Mrs. Wilson is extremely condescending towards Boyds sister, particularly when Johnny tells that Boyds sister hopes to become a teacher, because Mrs. Wilson expect different from a black woman.
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