Analyse af Shirley Jacksons 'After You, My Dear Alphonse'

After my opinion, is it hard to compare the contents of this (short-) story, because I have not experienced it ore seen it. I know there still is racial- discrimination and prejudice in nowadays in this world, and even in Denmark. But not in, this closely written way. ,,After You, My Dear Alphonse” is written in a kind of funny way, but also in an actual way. I think it has a typical American preterit point-of-vive. I must admit that this is a exciting subject.

In this essay the themes are ignorance and to be prejudiced, because Mrs. Wilson doesn’t know how to behave in this situation, when she meets Boyd. Her ignorance has the effect that she is prejudiced to Boyd. The title, ,,After you, My dear Alphonse” is rather ironic, because it’s Johnny who says it to Boyd, but in Mrs. Wilson’s eyes it should have been the other way round.

Mrs. Wilson thinks that all black people are poor and underfed, and she wants to help them by giving them close etc., and she wants to be sure that Boyd eat a lot too. In that way you can’t think of her as a racist, but her ignorance makes her prejudiced.