Sam's journey, however, provides a paternal influence where there is none, and clearly it succeeds much better when Hally is a little boy than it does when Hally grows up and realizes that in his cultural milieu, a middle-class white boy cannot have a black man for a father. ... Willie, Sam's friend and co-worker, is the least clearly-realized character in the story; he seems to function as a little brother whom Sam tries to guide and advise as he does Hally. (Paul Brians observes that "boet-, an epithet often applied by Willie to Sam, means "brother) (Brians, fugard.html)). ......

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• Grade Level: High School