Fairview Characters

Jackie Sibblies Drury
This Study Guide consists of approximately 67 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Fairview.

Fairview Characters

Jackie Sibblies Drury
This Study Guide consists of approximately 67 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Fairview.
This section contains 2,654 words
(approx. 7 pages at 400 words per page)
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Black Americans

In many ways, the action of the play is built around the experiences of a group of black characters – specifically, a family consisting of mother, father, daughter, and mother’s sister. Other black characters with connections to that family are referenced and eventually appear, but in circumstances that set them apart from other members of the family in some significant ways. Within that family group, there is one character who is arguably more significant than the others. This would be Keisha, the teenaged daughter of Beverly and Dayton, and niece to Beverly’s sister Jasmine. Keisha plays the most defining role in the play’s climax, and in the coming-to-conclusion of the play’s plot and thematic development.

However, the action of the play’s second act is played out and defined by a quartet of non-black characters. While the attention of those characters is directly focused...

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