He Don T Plant Cotton Analysis

What do people when their are backed against the wall. In Powers’ “He Don’t Plant Cotton” one snowy night in a lounge three workers had to carter and serve a crowd of over zealous and disrespectful white people. Through this we see how they deal with stress of work. Dodo, the bartender and a piano player, talks about them when his back turned, Baby, the drummer and waiter, does what they tell him to do with a smile, and Libby, the singer, plays dumb. Or In the end quit. The story demonstrates how people dealt stress in a time of oppression and racism. How does stress affect Dodo. Who is Dodo? He is a short hunchback man with pride who plays the piano before the customers arrive then he puts on his white coat ready to serve people drinks. Dodo wants to play the piano in front of everyone, but no ones wants to see him play because he is a short disgusting man this why he plays piano before everyone. Even though he is a good piano player because he can
Libby is the beautiful young lady from down south in New Orleans who plays the piano and sings. When Libby sit at the piano and sings men are stricken with lust and they began to lose minds as drink,and some are so bold they touch her. “He drained his drink and pushed closer the to the piano so as to brush Libby’s left hand with the front of first trousers.” They also want her sing to old racist songs like Old Man River. Liddy decide to play with them by acting like she do know songs, refusing to play them, and playing other songs. “Can you play ‘Hot Lips’?’ He was the real American boy. “Don’t know it,” libby lied.Libby wear a red dress, and this symbolize her quite will because red means strength, determined, and danger. Libby is the only one bold enough to face the crowd head on, and by doing this she put herself in danger. For most part Libby does not have a reason to stay she is just there to look good and sing. Libby is the person who have nothing to