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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

This is a report on the story "Driving Miss Daisy". The main characters are Daisy Werthan, Boolie Werthan, and Hoke Colborn. Alfred Uhry wrote the play. It started in nineteen forty-eight and ended in nineteen seventy-three. It's a play based on a female Jew, which is Daisy Werthan, which passes the ages of seventy-two to ninety-seven years old, and a black chauffeur named Hoke. Daisy's son Boolie is stuck in between Daisy's prejudice and Hoke. Here goes.
Daisy showed her first type of prejudice when Hoke told her "yo zinnias cold use a little tendin' to". She told him to leave them alone. He also offered to put vegetables in the garden. Daisy just gave him a rude reply. Now my opinion is that she didn't want him to touch her garden because she wasn't sure if black people knew how to take care of that type of thing. She also could have meant to be rude, not prejudice, because she doesn't want help from anybody for anything, ever.
Her next example of racism was when Hoke was looking at the walls that had pictures on them, and Daisy saw him, She told him she didn't like him "nosing through" all her things. All he did was try to compliment her on her house, and to be more specific, her walls. Hoke told her that he liked a house that had pictures in it. Now, what I think is that this part could go two ways. She might not be comfortable with the fact that an almost stranger is looking at her pictures, especially if they had her husband in them. She might not want Hoke to ask questions about her husband because it would remind her of her husband. There's also the prejudice way to look at it. Since Daisy didn't like black people, she might not want them looking at her stuff, let alone be in the same house.
The next part is confusing. It was when Hoke was going to wipe off her (Daisy) car. Daisy said not to touch her car. She also gave more rude remarks, such as "it's never been out of the garage", and also "I don't want...