waitresses

            Wright extensively comments on the women who wait at his diner. He doesn’t exactly spare them any scorn, but he doesn’t do anything over the top either. His comments are a kind of reserved pitying that they can’t help themselves. What his comments do reveal is that  he has very unique qualities typically found with the “lost generation” ideals. His thoughts all carry the trademark of disapproving and being disgusted with the consumerism that the US has descended to. His judgments of their reserved shallow emotions seem a little harsh. I’m not sure it’s true that they will  live their lives void of emotions, but his passive diagnosis of their careless simplicity does suit them for the time. Their lowly station and stature at the time is a chief reason to their obliviousness towards complexities and facing real issues. While many of the blacks Wright knew turned to religion or communal/familial relations, the whites tended to focus on the same material possessions that the culture dictates, but they specifically could do very little do to their lack of money. While they could afford to spend little of their money they tossed it aside none the less in attempts to make their lives the societal norm and blind themselves to the difficulties and stark ugliness of life.