Re: Elderly women
Tue, 18 Jan 1994 05:46:16 EST
>She has this problem with her car being up front, putting on airs I
>think she calls it. The stereotypical jewish grandmother, as I've seen
>it growing up Jewish, is someone who backstabs and worries about how
>they look to others instead of doing what they want.
I think that the point that you are missing is the fact that _Driving
Miss Daisy_ is set in the South. There is a clash of 'Jewishness' and
being Southern, there is also the relationship between Miss Daisy and
her driver who are _both_ not accepted into Southern 'society', he because
he is black and she because she is Jewish.
"Dr. Missy" [log in to unmask] (Internet)
Melissa Lee Price melissa@univscvm (BITNET)