Waiting to Exhale | Social Concerns
Social Concerns
In Waiting to Exhale, McMillan tries to
show the need for a radical improvement
in gender relations, notably
among African Americans. She does so
through the characters of four African
American women living in Phoenix in
the 1990s: Savannah Jackson, Bernadine
Harris, Robin Stokes, and Gloria Matthews.
These good friends are intelligent,
well educated, successful professional
women in their mid-thirties.
Each is preoccupied with, and deeply
frustrated by, her attempts to establish
a...
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