Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Reaction Paper

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is an excellent film that portrays life as an African American in the 1960s and different parts of society. It shows the differences between the lifestyles of whites and African Americans. By putting in a conflict like the relationship between the white woman (Katharine Houghton) and an African American man (Sidney Poitier) it made the film interesting and also it made you want to watch more to find out what eventually happens at the end of the film. In my paper, I will be giving reasons as to why I think the theme of discrimination was very fitting to society in the time that the film was made. In the early 1960s people thought that they had been living in the “golden age”. But by the end of the 1960s it seemed that everything had started to fall apart. Racial discrimination was a major part of this decrease in the “golden age” era. In today’s society, the 21st century, we do not really see a problem with interracial relationships or even interracial marriages. In fact, some people say that children that come from parents of two completely different races are some of the best-rounded children and personally, I think that they are the cutest as babies. In the 1960s everyone thought that interracial relationships were wrong and that interracial marriages were even worse. The reason that they thought that interracial relationships were bad was because of their religious beliefs and they just were not used to the idea of an African American man with a white woman (or vice versa). Even though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 stated that discriminations against religious minorities, race, and women was outlawed, it did not stop people from voicing their opinions about the matter.
In the film, you can see the typical father-daughter relationship. You can see the father (Spencer Tracy) trying to defend his daughter (Katharine Houghton) by not wanting her to go through with the marriage only because of Poitier’s race. Even though Poitier’s