Stereotypes In Driving Miss Daisy

In general, negative pre judgment of people, usually because of ethnicity, or religion, and their marginalization from full contribution in society, have always been subjects to many discussions and controversies, especially for civil rights’ activists and movements. In “Driving Miss Daisy”, the director Bruce Beresford and the screenwriter Alfred Uhry portray this ethnic prejudice and discrimination more subtly than one might fear, delicately exploring and exposing. While including some concepts like friendship and ageing, “Driving Miss Daisy” entertains and narrates the racial tension in the South of the US in the mid-twentieth century. The movie, therefore, enables audiences to live the difficult moments endured by some ethnicities, especially

She is an independent and rich Jewish lady who hates being called wealthy and loathes the idea of servants. ''I don't have any privacy,'' she tells to Boolie. ''It's like having children in the house.'' In a study about prejudice, stereotype and affect, (Gorgijn, Finchilescu, Brix, Wijnants, & Koomen, 2008) argue that “there was a significant correlation and between prejudice cultural stereotypes: more prejudice was related to the perception of a more negative cultural stereo- type… it seems that the relationship between cultural stereotypes and prejudice is based on valence rather than content.” Daisy uses initially her emotions to make a judgment on the African American ethnicity. Her character role appears at first as antagonist. She protests to Boolie to hire a driver, she refuses to enter the car. She opposes any action that can mean change. Ageing bringing some changes, Daisy in a moment of clarity after manifestations of dementia, calls Hoke her friend. Her character therefore becomes therefore dynamic. She is also a victim of prejudice, which in reality, is the antagonist in “Driving Miss Daisy”. The remaining protagonists also suffer from that