The story Florence, by Alice Childress reflects the love of a mother for her child and also helps us to understand that the negative feelings about something someone else does, may not be for us to understand. Mama, a character in this late forties play was the leading character. Mama had little faith in her daughter becoming a star, until something happened to change her mind. She meet an actress in the bus station who …showed first 75 words of 636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 636 total…Florence could be an actress, because if she didn’t she would have not changed her mind as easily as she did. We have to sometimes look beyond our fear to see what the next person sees. Mama was afraid that Florence would fail, but she realized that, before taking that long unnecessary trip to the North that Florence was a grown lady who deserved the chance at fame just as any white person did.