What theme is best shown in the following line of dialogue from String?
JOE. L. V. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits and
he live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it.
.. But he cheats.
A. Good versus evil
B. Growth and rebirth
C. Outer beauty and inner ugliness
D. Time waits for no one.

Respuesta :

I think it’s A Good versus Evil

Answer:

Among the options given on the question the correct answer is option C.

Outer beauty and inner ugliness.

Explanation: The given dialogue is from the play called "String" written by the Alice Chidress in 1969. She was the only African American woman who wrote and produced play more than four decades.

Among her many play and novels String is one of a famous play.The play is a part of her book "Mojo and String". It is a story of a gentle man abused by the vulgarians.

On the given lines,the theme which is best shown is outer beauty and inner ugliness. Because the line "JOE. L. V. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits and  he live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it" describes the outer beauty.

On the other hand the line "But he cheats" shows the inner ugliness. So the whole dialogue shows the outer beauty and the inner ugliness of the character.