"The Piano Lesson"

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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the play "The Piano Lesson," by August Wilson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the work in 1990. Specifically, it addresses the form of the play and analyzes the characters of Boy Willy and Berniece.

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"Boy Willie is trying desperately to be equal with the white people one reason he wants to buy the land. He does not have time for the sentimentality of Berniece, he can only see the land as something concrete that can make him money, and make him a "man." He is also the character who changes the most at the end of the play. Berniece may begin playing the piano again, but Boy Willie gives up the piano, and his dream of owning the land. He has shifted 360 degrees by the end of the play."

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