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Analysis - The Jazz Singer

For a moment they are liberated from the confines of their separate worlds and are enjoying something together. The fathers are out of the picture and the mothers were able to Americanize and join the real world. Jack gave her a necklace and explains his plans for success in the New World. He is going to have riches, he plans to buy her dresses and a new home. .
             The narration of the film depicts the "Old World" as being very strict and uninviting to change and progression. One instance is after Jack had been gone for several years chasing his dreams and returns to his home town to begin his Broadway career. He stopped by his parent's home and his mother was ecstatic, he performs for her, she was filled with joy. His father was not so pleased, and tries to stop Jack. His father would not accept Jack's jazz music or the man he had become. "You dare bring your jazz songs in my house," his father yells to him. "You're the old world, if you grew up here you'd feel the same as I do," responded Jack. .
             All Jack wanted was for his Dad to accept who he had become, he was hopefully that one day his Dad could accept that him growing up in America made it impossible for him to live up to the standards of his Dad's Old World. Jack could not let his love of music fade away just to please his father. Not only was his conflict with his father an issue in Jack's life and career but so was his immigrant past. Jakie Robinowitz or Jack Robin was a Jew, but a Jew trying to become famous in film and performance. The way blackface is used in The Jazz Singer is a symbol of Jack's constant attempts to move away from the strict Jewish culture and create a non-Jewish identity for himself as a Broadway jazz singing star. A powerful scene is when Mary enters the room and Jack is applying the black face paint, he is clearly distraught and conflicted by his Jewish culture and his career. The film has introduced the key point of the plot, the impossibility of Jack Robin to reconcile his two identities.


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