Emily Green's Role In The Play 'Clybourne Park'

In the play Clybourne Park, we observe two acts with different cultural settings. In the play, we see a sudden shift in the character of Emily Green, who plays the deaf, pregnant neighbor in the first act, and a wife who is trying to purchase a house in the second act. Although Emily Green played very contradictory roles for each act, she succeeded in representing them realistically and effectively by taking a different approach for both characters and using varying mannerisms and vocals for both roles and successfully represented the role of women for both eras.
For the first act, Emily Green takes on the role of Betsy, who is a deaf and pregnant wife. While taking on the role of Betsy, it seemed as though Green was representing the suppression of women during the 50s. She displayed it through her inability to stand out around the other characters. Since Betsy is deaf, she also has a hard time speaking. This means that she had to be barely noticeable, which Green did a great job at portraying. Throughout the first act, she did not stand out as much and was not noticed even by the characters around her, including her husband. For example, when Betsy and her husband Karl first appear he does not seem to believe that it is important to introduce her to
This signified how woman were in the background during that time. Considering her character had a hard time to speak, Green did not project her voice out at all. When she did attempt to talk, she did not seem to be heard and what she was trying to say was almost dismissed by the others. Instead, she had to resort to physical gestures to get their attention. We can see that Green is trying to get everyone, including Karl, to notice her and understand what is going on around her. She performs many exaggerated gestures that were effective in displaying what her role really signified throughout the first