“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”
In the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, Johanna (Joey) and John boarded an airplane from Hawaii to San Francisco. Joanna comes from a background of a Caucasian wealthy family and John comes from a background of an African –American working class family. Joanna is a classy, sophisticated colleague who met Dr. John Prentice who was holding a lecture at Hawaii University and was attending a party at the Deans. At the beginning of the movie, Johanna and John arrives at the San Francisco airport, check their luggage out with the bagger, and began talking amongst each other. At this point, both characters are building rapport. Next, they caught a taxi, from the airport and rode within the city of San Francisco talking to each and was trying to make a decision of how were John was going to stay. Immediately, Joana insisted that John would stay over and meet her parents, but John seemed sort of uneasy of this situation due to Joanna not informing her parents that John was coming with her and that he was African American. Later, they stopped in at the gallery where her mother works and she is trying to find her. Johanna couldn’t find her mother, so she sees the owner, Mrs. Hilary St. George and introduces Dr. John Prentice to her. There seemed to be a signal of prejudice, as Mrs. St. George is speaking to Dr. Prentice, falsely smiles at him, but sort of rejects his greeting in return by continuing to speak with Joanna over his conversation with her. John smiled anyway and waited patiently for both women to finish their conversation and Joey and he soon left, in the taxi again traveling to her parents’ home.
Upon arrival to his girlfriend’s home, the taxi cab driver unloaded their luggage. As the cab driver finished unloading their bags, Joanna greeted Tillie the maid at the front door and introduced Dr. Prentice to her.