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Missy Price <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 Jan 1994 05:46:16 EST
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>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)

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