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...stay-at-home mom Jane Collyer, 33, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, having her first of three children at 24 meant three words: mac and cheese. Besides getting by on cheap dinners, the Collyers drive a '92 Chevy Cavalier ("There's a lot of life left in it"), and husband Mike, an Ohio assistant attorney general, free-lances as a computer consultant. But, says Jane Collyer, they don't feel deprived, because they never had the perks--expensive cars, dinners out, overseas vacations--that some two-income couples get used to before they have to cut back for the children...
With Amanda, Lincoln is finally allowed to finish without a white man taking his place, but her husband then bursts in on them and accuses Lincoln of rape, leading to his eventual lynching. Complicating the storyline is the character of Jane McNeil (Stephanie Dorvil), a black sharecropper who suddenly appears on Brett’s plantation and turns out to be his daughter, a fact she springs on him as he tries to seduce her. Refusing to hide her secret, Jane incites Brett to strangle her, a murder he then pins on Lincoln after he is accused of rape...
...greatest desires by having them sleep together. While Lincoln as narrator tells us afterwards that this was not the case, Mrs. Brett has no such opportunity. In fact, Lincoln’s voice excludes the perspective of all the female characters, and their only direct commentary comes when Jane sings Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” to the dangling noose at the very end of the play...
While everyone recognizes the existence of a code between blacks and whites, few characters seem conscious of a similar code between men and women. The male dominates the female in buck, whether it be Brett silencing Jane’s voice of resistance, Lincoln having sex with Jane as a mere bodily stand-in for the white women, or Robert Aniston denying his wife Amanda’s claim that her sex with Lincoln was consensual...
...racial connection is clear: one can discern the same disregard in the way Brett treats Lincoln and Jane; but a clear connection between the male treatment of both white women and women of color is conspicuously absent...