The Piano Lesson Setting

The details provide a plot that is easily understood. The setting is basic, and the actions of the characters are straightforward. The play starts early in the morning with a loud ruckus, but after that the author does not go into detail about the length and time of the play. The play seems to take place over a long period, but in reality, only a short amount of time passes during the course of the story.
“The brevity of the plots soon intensifies the drama of the events that unfold, while the kinds of details allow the audience an extraordinarily intimate glimpse of the family’s life. The brevity of the time frame is an implicit contrast to the length of the family’s history, since the family [is] illiterate slaves, they [rely] upon storytelling, music, and art, rather than wiring, to recite and remember their joys and sorrows” (Galen 251).
Even though the play’s plot takes place in a week, Wilson manages to clearly convey the simple details of the setting and
The piano is ironically the source of possible deaths because of its violent past. Berniece believes the piano should be valued as a family artifact that is priceless. On the other hand, Boy Willie believes the piano is worth a significant dollar value. The conflict comes to a violent halt when Berniece walks downstairs with a shotgun which she points at Boy Willie while he and Lymon are trying to move the piano. The resolution of their enmity requires Lymon, the outsider, to invoke family and community harmony at the end of the disagreement by declaring it will take more than two people to move the piano (Snodgrass 154). This creates a hurdle for Boy Willie to move the piano, yet he stays confident in his argument against