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A 4 page essay that examines the character of William Marshall, whom the writer argues plays a pivotal role in Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes. Examination of the play demonstrates that Marshall provides the impetus from which all subsequent action results. As well as providing an easy means for relating exposition, Marshall also serves to underscore the thematic development of the play, as well as the characterization of the Hubbard family. No additional sources cited.
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that Marshall provides the impetus from which all subsequent action results. As well as providing an easy means for relating exposition, Marshall also serves to underscore the thematic development of
the play, as well as the characterization of the Hubbard family. The Little Foxes is set in the South around the turn of the twentieth century. The Hubbard family
are nouveau rich Southerners who have made their fortune by exploiting poor blacks. As the play opens, brothers Ben and Oscar, as well as their sister, Regina Giddens are entertaining
a Northerner investor and future business partner, William Marshall, at a dinner party. The Hubbards are anxious to impress Marshall with their business acumen. Ben Hubbard says, "Our grandfather
and our father learned the new ways (of the South) and learned how to make them pay" (207). In connection with this, Ben also emphasizes that the Hubbard family, unlike
the family of Oscars wife, Birdie, were never Southern aristocrats. "We are not aristocrats," he says. "Our brothers wife (pointing at Birdie) is the only one of us who belongs
to Southern aristocracy" (206). The point to this being that the Hubbard brothers are unlike the Southern aristocrat, who "cannot adapt himself to anything" because he is "Too high-tone to
try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsider to the region provides the playwright with
an ideal vehicle for presenting the audience with exposition that makes sense within the context of the play, rather than simply having character spout pertinent background facts for no apparent
reason. By telling Marshall, the family history and their personal business perspective, the Hubbards also tell the audience necessary facts for understanding the complicated family dynamics. For example, Marshall asks,
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