List of Facts

Set in a Subway
In a City (New York)
Lula has a bag with apples and books
Lula is eating the apple
Clay and Lula catch one another staring through the window
Lula gets on the train to see Clay
Lula wraps the apple in a tissue and throws it away
Clay is from New Jersey
Clay tried growing a beard
Clay has a sister named Georgia
Clay is friends with Warren Enright
Clay is headed to Warrens house
Lula gives Clay an apple
Lula is strong
Lulas hair is turning grey
Warren is having a party
Lena the Hyena is a famous woman poet
Clay Williams is Clays full name
Lula lives on the 5th floor of a building
Its Hot (Summer)
Clay is wearing a jacket and tie (3 button suit)
Clays grandfather was a nightwatchman
Clay went to colored college
Lulas mother was Communist.
Clays Mother was Republican
Lula calls Clay a murderer
Clay is kissing Lulas neck
Lula lives in a tenement
The subway is moving slow
Lulas rooms are dark and black
There are a lot of people on the train
Clay thinks Lula is Jewish b/c of wire
Lula is dancing and singing
Clay slaps Lula
Clay is middle class
Clay wants to murder
Lula stabs Clay in the chest twice
Lula sees another young black boy

List of Questions

What does idle mean?

What is up with the apples?
What is a potshot?
What is the context of weight?
Does Clay want to have sex with her?
Does Lula know Warren Enright?
Is Lula a lady wrestler?
Why is Lula giving Clay another apple?
Clays grandfather was a watchman for what?
Who is Averell Harriman?
Who is Baudelaire?
What is a hovel?
Why is Clays hand dry and cold?
What is a fascist?
What was in the apples? (Cocaine)
What is an ofay?
Who is Tallulah Bankhead?
Where East Sixty Seventh Street?
What is a tenement?

Character Analysis

Lula
o Clay- Lula wants to have a good time with Clay. Lula wants
to teach Clay what its like to be with an older white
woman.
o Warren- Lula knows Warren through a passing just like
Clay. Lula talked to Warren about his party next week and
about his close friends.
o Lula wants to deceive. Lula like being a mysterious woman
and a seductress.
o Lula is willing to drug a man to get what she wants. She is
willing to get on a train to sit next to a stranger. She is
willing to invite herself to a party. She is willing to lie.
o Lula has no problem with murder, lying, kissing strangers,
rubbing bellies in public, doing drugs, and flirting with
strangers.
o Lula is strong, white, somewhat privileged, has grey hair.

Clay
o Lula- Clay wants to screw Lula. Clay likes the mystery of
an older white woman and wants to impress her.
o Warren- is a good friend of Clays, and Clay is going to his
party. Warren and Clay went to colored college together.
o Georgia- is Clays sister. She tends to tell more things
about him to her friends then he would like to be told.
o Clay wants to look educated, upper class, WHITE. Clay
wants respect.
o Clay is willing to dress another way than he is accustomed
to, get his education at a colored college, change
everything about himself. Surround himself with people
who are what he wants to be or who are just like him.
o Clay has no problem with murder, with being a different
man than who he is, telling lies, talking to a stranger,
taking a stranger to his friends house, going to a strangers
house.
o Clay dresses in a 3-button suit, is 20 years old, and is
black.

Research
Potshot-a shot aimed unexpectedly or at random at someone or something
with no chance of self-defense.
Idle-without purpose or effect; pointless.
Weight has three different context in the play
o 1) As in this is heavy
o 2) As in that burden is yours
3) A street term meaning cocaine. mainly used by dealers
or people that deal with large amounts of cocaine
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weight
W. Averell Harriman, in full William Averell Harriman (born Nov. 15,
1891, New York City, N.Y., U.S.died July 26, 1986, Yorktown Heights,
N.Y.), statesman who was a leading U.S. diplomat in relations with the
Soviet Union during World War II and the Cold War period following
World War II. http://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Averell-Harriman
Charles Baudelaire
18211867 one of the most compelling poets of the nineteenth
century.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-baudelaire
Hovel- a small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling
Snow white- cocaine, a popular drug
Ofay- A word of unspecified West African origin that refers to "white"
people. It's commonly used in the American South but has fallen out of
favor as "White Devil" has assumed prominence.
Tallulah Bankhead- Was an actress who was known for acting up in
public like chain smoking and taking her clothes off.

East Sixty Seventh Street- is on the upper east side of New York
City.
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/03/23/25_million_mansi
on_is_east_67th_streets_latest_fixerupper.php

Lena the Hyena-