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lyatheenaka's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Racial slurs
draven_deathcrush's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
It wasn't terrible, but I just don't care about books or plays set in this time period. It was better than Death of a Salesman though.
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
rosalie_gonzalus's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs
ledlight's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs
Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Child abuse
irisgoldson's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse
Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Misogyny
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, War, Classism, Mental illness, and Alcoholism
idonoteatchairs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Rape
arcadering's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content
jakeaboi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Infidelity, Racial slurs, Death, Racism, and Cursing
Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Death of parent
Minor: Violence and Sexual content
sherbertwells's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“GABRIEL: Better get ready for the judgement
Better get ready for the judgement
My Lord is coming down” (30)
“He only says ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense” (“Mending Wall”)
“TROY: I ain’t worried about Death. I done seen him. I done wrestled with him. Look here, Bono…I looked up one day and Death was marching straight at me. Like soldiers on Parade. The Army of Death was marching straight at me…I know he’s gonna get me. I know I got to join his army…his camp followers. But as long as I keep my strength and see him coming…as long as I keep up my vigilance…he’s going to have to fight to get me. I ain’t going easy” (16-17)
“CORY: The whole time I was growing up…living in his house…Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. It weighed on you and sunk into your flesh. It would wrap around you and lay there until you couldn’t tell which one was you anymore. That shadow digging in your flesh. Trying to crawl in. Trying to live through you. Everywhere I looked, Troy Maxson was staring back at me”
*The most beautiful dialogue I have ever read appears in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.
Graphic: Racial slurs
Moderate: Infidelity, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Violence and Sexual content