Rose, for the times, I think, showed more than being a simple housewife and mother. She went into a relationship with her husband Troy who has a child from a previous marriage, and although her bond wasn't as tight as it would be with her son Corey. She still shows sincere motherly qualities toward Lyons, her stepson.

Rose also shows strength in ways such as when Lyons comes asking his father for ten dollars and troy refuses, Rose is the one who intervenes and gets Lyons the money from him. "I will just as soon turn it loose," she says (Wilson 215). This along with having the control of the family budget and actually giving Troy an allowance from the money he makes for the family, makes her in my opinion an independent thinker of sorts.

Rose's talk with Corey at the end of the play makes a lot of scene and at the same time makes no scents. She speaks of sacrifice and strength. Everyone, no matter what kind of a relationship you are in, makes sacrifice for one another in order for it to be successful. Also strength is very important in order to be able to deal with the hardships a relationship can strain on to one another. She talks about how her life didn't have to be lived like it was, and that it was by her own choice to live it that way. On the contrary she says that that was the way life was offered to her as a woman? I don't know. What is it that she is saying? That it was her choice to live her life the way she did, but it was because of what life offered to her as a woman was the root of her unhappiness? I don't agree with that or totally understand what her intentions by saying it to begin with were.

I don't see how feminist critics can view this as sexist. The way Wilson portrayed Rose is the way life was in that time period for most cultures. Granted African Americans did have a harder time because of obvious American historical events, but

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