Like A Widging Sheet
...ight for good sleeping. And all that standing beats the hell out of my legs." Doing things at the last minute does not really pay. Both Mae and Johnson know the consequenses of going to work late but they spend a couple of time arguing. The narrator uses foreshadowing to show tha Johnson is gengle and persuasive but turns out later that he is tense, commanding and violent. When he gets to work, his mind starts to wonder away. He thought of going back to bed forever. He also have imagination how he could manage his own plant if at all he had one- make a tremendous change on the working conditions making other workers lazy. Johnson has this mentality that a woman never be a boss, especially white. On spoting Johnson, the forelady gets very angry. She is very unconsiderate and a recest too. Johnson tries to defend his race by responding gently but firm. His temper rises up when his fists doubled, lips drawn back in a thin narrow line and a vein in his forehead stood out swollen and thick. THe woman is revealed as a coward when she steps back and tries to convience Johnson. The narrator uses irony on pg 76- " He tried to make his hands relax by offering them a description of what it could have been like to strike her because he had the queer feeling that his hands were not exactly a part of him anymore- they had developed a separate life of their own over which he had no control ." Johnson keeps on working with unease and when it is time to stop working he keeps on working as a sign of relief. After getting the pocket rich, he decides to treat himself with a cup of steaming coffee but all in vein. Johnson starts to have the feelings he had earlier when the white girl at the urn says that there will be no coffee for a while. It is a coinsdence that people who frustrate him are women- white women. These minor charaters ar...