-lucky good guys with a self-righteous gripe" (27). Indeed, Esther Rolle, who played Florida Evans, the character around whom Good Times was originally structured, left the show for one season because the J.J. character was becoming central to the action in ways that she appears not to have approved of: "'I did not agree to do a clown show for you to degrade young black men,' she told the show's producers" (Guthrie, Zutell, and Brooks 143).
Critical analysis of "Everyday Use" is divided. There is a view that Dee considered apart from the manifest action is not as negative a character as the narrator appears to think. In a discussion of her latent motivation and objectives, Farrell observes that the story is pr
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