¶ … Crow Flies
In this short play, Chinese-American author David Henry Hwang applies multi-cultural beliefs and observations to a simple setting, and in doing so ultimately brings forth a melding of worlds and dimensions. The title, "As the Crow Flies," indicates that a direct path is going to be used to arrive at a desired destination. Hwang uses humor as a tool to transcend the contrasting cultures and races, and to reveal universal similarities of people regardless of race or cultural stereotyping. His humor also keeps the audience completely unaware of all that is actually taking place in front of them until the final moment, and keeps them unprepared for the revelation of the inevitable destination symbolized by the crow.
As the play begins, Hannah, the black maid, tells her elderly Chinese employer, Mrs. Chan, about her unusual alter ego that sometimes surfaces. Hannah explains that her alter ego, Sandra Smith, is a younger black woman, but as she gives her explanation, Mrs. Chan, who comes from a culture that is acquainted with certain mysteries of supernatural realms, realizes right away that the alter ego is actually a "warning ghost," or a harbinger of death. Hannah, therefore, who has been working in the Chan's home, and in the homes of other elderly "clients" for a number of years is actually the angel of death, and has been patiently waiting for the right moment to show herself. She recently showed herself to a certain Mrs. Washburn, and...
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