Three Tall Women | Characters
A
A is the ‘‘tall woman’’ of the play’s title. As the elder version of B and C, A is an intriguing blend of contradictions. In the first act, while she is being cared for by B and C, she is alternately childish and dignified, panic-stricken and stoic.
A’s narrative is punctuated by crude, bigoted comments. The Italian man her sister married was ‘‘a wop.’’ The domestic servants she knew as a girl ‘‘knew their place; they were polite, and wellbehaved; none of those uppity niggers, the city ones.’’
A’s intolerance has...
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