Arrangement in Black and White
ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE
Dorothy Parker, an American short-story writer and poet, became one of the greatest humourists of her generation. Dorothy Parker had strong, liberal political opinions, which were reflected in her writings, and her short story “Arrangement in Black and White” is not an exception. The story raises the problem of racial discrimination of black people in America in the first half of the twentieth century. The story has all the obligatory elements of the plot structure, except for the denouement. The exposition is the very first sentence of the story where we get to know the protagonist – the woman with pink velvet poppies twined around the assisted gold of her hair who traversed the crowded room. In this very sentence the setting is established, we find ourselves in a crowded room, all the rest fact concerning the setting we gather while reading the whole story. Thus we get to know that a party is organized in honour of a black musician, Walter Williams, and many representatives from the highest our higher middle class are invited. Then immediately start the moments of complications when the woman clutched the lean arm of the host and asked him to get her acquainted with the black musician. The rest of the story follows in a form of a dialogue where the woman tells about her husband who is awfully fond of black. And she keeps on telling how she adores the talent of the black musician. The next moment of complications start when the woman is actually introduced to the musician. She speaks very loud and praises the man, but nearly makes a mistake, telling that some woman in the room is so dark that she looks almost like a … Then the host pilots the woman to another place, meanwhile she confesses how scared and nervous she was and worries about her mistake in the conversation. The climax of the story is when the protagonist tells the readers her real aim of getting introduced to Walter Williams – she cannot wait to tell
Dorothy Parker, an American short-story writer and poet, became one of the greatest humourists of her generation. Dorothy Parker had strong, liberal political opinions, which were reflected in her writings, and her short story “Arrangement in Black and White” is not an exception. The story raises the problem of racial discrimination of black people in America in the first half of the twentieth century. The story has all the obligatory elements of the plot structure, except for the denouement. The exposition is the very first sentence of the story where we get to know the protagonist – the woman with pink velvet poppies twined around the assisted gold of her hair who traversed the crowded room. In this very sentence the setting is established, we find ourselves in a crowded room, all the rest fact concerning the setting we gather while reading the whole story. Thus we get to know that a party is organized in honour of a black musician, Walter Williams, and many representatives from the highest our higher middle class are invited. Then immediately start the moments of complications when the woman clutched the lean arm of the host and asked him to get her acquainted with the black musician. The rest of the story follows in a form of a dialogue where the woman tells about her husband who is awfully fond of black. And she keeps on telling how she adores the talent of the black musician. The next moment of complications start when the woman is actually introduced to the musician. She speaks very loud and praises the man, but nearly makes a mistake, telling that some woman in the room is so dark that she looks almost like a … Then the host pilots the woman to another place, meanwhile she confesses how scared and nervous she was and worries about her mistake in the conversation. The climax of the story is when the protagonist tells the readers her real aim of getting introduced to Walter Williams – she cannot wait to tell