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    A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta"
    A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta"
    A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta"
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    A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta"

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    A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535824682
    A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta"

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      A Study Guide for Karen Jones-Meadows's "Henrietta" - Gale

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      Henrietta

      Karen Jones Meadows

      1985

      Introduction

      Karen Jones Meadows's play Henrietta (1985) emphasizes several of the social issues of the 1980s, including homelessness and lack of aid for people who have mental health and drug problems. Henrietta, the main character of the drama, makes a very minimal amount of money selling fruit. She spends most of her days sitting on a crate on a busy sidewalk criticizing people who pass by. Not all of the passers-by ignore her. Sheleeah, a twenty-something, somewhat successful accountant, notices Henrietta and wishes she would go away. Henrietta embarrasses Sheleeah. In spite of her frustration with the woman, there is something about Henrietta that Sheleeah is attracted to. Sheleeah believes Henrietta has found a way to beat the system. Henrietta does not have to spend her days in a downtown office with a boss applying constant pressure to get her work done. This makes Sheleeah think that Henrietta enjoys a freedom that Sheleeah does not have.

      As the play progresses, the audience discovers the flaws in Sheleeah's conclusions as well as the flaws in Henrietta's personality. The play concludes on a less-than-happy note. However, the characters decide that no matter how much they might complain, they each like the paths they have chosen for themselves.

      Henrietta made its debut at the Negro Ensemble Company stage in New York in 1985 and has since been staged on the East Coast, West Coast, and places in between, receiving mixed reviews. This was the playwright's first full-length stage play for adults.

      Author Biography

      Jones Meadows was born in 1953 and grew up in the Bronx in New York City. She attended Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. As an adult, she has lived, from time to time, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the state her parents were from. In an interview with Anthony C. Davis, a writer for the Philadelphia Tribune, Jones Meadows stated that it was in North Carolina that she first saw a different way in which Black people lived. She added: I hadn't experienced a situation where we had our own stores and properties until I went to North Carolina. Living in North Carolina may have enhanced her view of the lives of African Americans in the south.

      In addition to Henrietta (1985), Jones Meadows has written Tapman (1988), which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck blues musician, and her most critically acclaimed play to date, Harriet's Return (1995 and significantly revised in 2003), which chronicles the life of Harriet Tubman, who devoted her life

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