Shadow Of A Man Play Summary

This play by Cherrie Moraga leads a movement of Chicana feminism. The story is basically happening in a Mexican American immigrant family. The Rodriguez family lives in the Los Angeles area. Manuel is a typical Mexican father. He is stubborn and follows the ethical order faithfully. Lupe is the younger daughter who is a lesbian. She’s only twelve and the environment she grows up in has taught her homosexuality is “evil”. She is being struggled with herself. Manuel tries to find his position in this new society. He obsesses with power, and can tolerant and sacrifice his wife to Conrado, who is his friend and godfather of the girls. The confusion about identity finally brings Manuel to suicide. But that also gives the women in this family a chance to start their new life.
Reflection: (word: 327) I feel this is another version, or we can say, a feminist version of Death of a Salesman. …show more content…
In Shadow of a Man, the author focuses on a more specific racial group, Chicano families. And in addition to that, the major character Lupe is a lesbian. This double-marginalized identity gives Lupe even more confusion and frustration than characters in Death of a Salesman. Fortunately, the suicide of Manuel, Lupe’s father, at the end of this play gives Lupe freedom to embrace what she truly wants to be and she finally has the courage to confront the unfair treat towards her sexual orientation. If there is a difference between Death of a Salesman and Shadow of a Man, that would the tone of the ending of the play. Arthur Miller leaves the ending part as a total tragedy. Even although the death of Willy gives the rest of family a chance to get some paid from the