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insctruction.docxAccording to the description in the "Three At the Cherry Lane" (title "Specifically, 1964", please read the files I already upload) the reviewer states that the character Lula symbolizes "the absolute neurosis of American society." What do you think this means?
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In the " Three At the Cherry Lane" article, the statement made; "the absolute neurosis of American society", I believe refers to a complete teardown of our human society. A society that once was a community, now broken down by an evil racist system, that causes one to judge by the skin color, in lieu of the content of the character of an individual. When this happens, men and women vacate their higher level of learning, which is in the frontal lobe of their brain, and resort to the lower, animal brain/survival mode.
Lula's character represents the fear, the disdain, the panic, and the dark heart of a system that prey upon a race of people because of a sicknes called superiority. For example, when Lula said to Clay, ""Cause you're an escaped nigger. "Cause you crawled through the wire and made tracks to my side". Don't they have wire around plantations? (P #29). This was a heartless statement that was not only intended to degrade the intelligence of Clay himself, but the intelligence of the entire Negro race of people, while uplifting the superiority of the white race. However, as Clay Pointed out, "Plantations didn't have any wire. Plantations were big open whitewashed places like heaven, and everybody on 'em was just grooved to be there. Just strummin' and hummin' all day". While Lula's question highlighted the ignorance of the white society that degraded the Colored people, Clay showed his intelligence in the way he corrected her, by giving her the correct information, but in a sarcastic tone, and in a calm and composed manner. However, Lula's behavior seems to be out of control as she hysterically throughs apples out of her bag into the crowd, and moves her body like a maniac.
When fear and anxiety is the heartbeat of a racist society, people will do anything to survive, which may include; human degradation, slavery, floggings, and even murder. In short, abuse. And this deteriorates the moral fiber of our society; and the people in it. Not only a race of people, but the entire human race at large.
