Thursday, January 9, 2014
Doctor Foster was a strange man
Doctor Foster was a really strange man. He was close in a way that no one is really sure to his daughter Ruth, and kept her away from many different social areas because he felt that no one was good enough for her, but then desperately wanted to marry her off and get some distance between them. He also delivered Ruth's child, which under all circumstances is strange and very uncomfortable for every party involved with either character. Doctor Foster was also strangely racist against his own people, being the only black doctor in his town. Wouldn't you think as one of the more highly educated black people within his area he would try and elevate other black people's statuses? I really can't find any motive behind this behavior, all I can think of is how backwards it is that he would act like that. Almost every black intellectual in history has tried to further black's statuses, why wouldn't Doctor Foster?
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I do definitely agree that Dr. Foster's relationship with his daughter was more than a little odd! However, I'm not really sure I agree that he was racist towards his own people. It almost seemed like to me that he was kind of disappointment in his fellow black men! Dr. Foster was clearly not someone who let the fact that he was black dictate the way he lived his life; he became a doctor after all. I can see then, that when other black men did not do the same, that he would be disappointed in his peers. Is it really his job to push his peers into advocating for themselves? He certainly set a good example for them of what a black man can do, but nobody seemed to follow it...
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