Summary Of The Play 'Clybourne Park'

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In Bruce Norris’s play ‘Clybourne Park,’ the characters grapple with shifting circumstances as they navigate the sale and redevelopment of a house in a racially charged neighborhood. This essay explores how the characters’ enduring beliefs, particularly regarding racism and coping with loss, persist despite the passage of time and evolving situations. Despite these changes, certain character attitudes and behaviors remain remarkably consistent throughout the play. One of the parallel pairs of characters is Karl and Steve. We can get this pair from the fact that they are racist. “But you’ll have to show me where to find the skiing Negroes!”(pg 77)-Karl “-Cism! Cism - a sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy sassy Not -cist!”(pg 181)-Steve. …show more content…
I think this connects Karl and Steve as racists. I think the connecting attribute of Karl and Steve is racism. Another pair of parallel characters are Bev and Lindsey. We can get this pair by the fact that they try to keep everyone calm. “But the perimeter isn’t changing.”(pg 106)-Lindsey “Come back here.”(pg 38)-Bev. In these examples, Lindsey sets the perimeter for the conversation so things won’t hopefully get heated, Bev tells Jim to get back because she thinks Russ needs help, but he pushes Jim away so she’s trying to help Russ. I think this connects the two women because they are trying their best to keep everyone calm. The final pair of parallel characters are Rus, Bev, Dan, and Kathy. We get this pair from their issues of dealing with loss. “And Francine walking in at nine in the morning to find him there.”(pg 92)-Russ. “We lost him, Dan. We lost him, and we don’t even know where he
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