Love Isabella Sanford, but Tilly behaved with a slave mentality, worse even, the House "Slave", that was the slave that would live in the master's house and wear nicer clothes, but THEY forgot who they were and would be oppressive to the other slaves. Her treatment of John was unwarranted and undignified.
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I liked her, she was old fashioned but she was looking out for her little girl.
shareShe was old-fashioned but that was the way she was brought up. The races should stay separate and Black folks should not try to get above themselves. I saw some of that myself when I met some of my husband's relatives as we also were interracial.
shareHer character was representative of black people who believed that the races should stay separate. She might have believed in equal opportunity (it sounds like the people she worked for were championing that) but she still believed that the races should stay separate. There was also the issue that she loved Joanna and suspected that John's interest in Joanna may have been that "get a white girl to show you made it" syndrome (which did exist) instead of a true caring on his part for Joanna.
shareI didn't understand her attack until I read the posts. Separate but equal. Her statement of him getting ahead of himself bothered me also until it was explained that she didn't believe he could love her. That sounds familiar with the nightmare of slavery still living and breathing. Love, it sounds so simple. It should be so easy. The way they look at you, how they touch or caress you. How you make everyday better, with the small or big things. When we all are able to define just our happiness, we will have come a long way. Well, I'm off my soapbox.
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First there was some feelings of motherhood coming through Tilly's words...She went after John based on two things, one was her fear that John was taking advantage of Joey, the second was all about race and while not correct it made sense to her...No so much keeping the races seperate, but not having one of her own over step his bounds in her opinion. Not causing trouble for their own race, not embarassing her with the family she has so many connections with, through Joey.. None of that was ever correct, but change moves slowly and it always has. Nothing can force people's minds to change so quickly and not cause resentment. She was the antagonist and she was loved for her open and honest comments and shouldn't be judged for something she didn't make...I'll always love Tilly....anyone who speaks their mind gets extra points from me, especially when they do it out of love and not hatred...
shareout of love and not hatred...
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I didn't see it that way. What I heard and saw was her long time association with the family (since Joey was 1 year old) and her fierce loyalty to them. Knowing that Drayton was a very well to do publisher and Joey was worth a lot of money would make Tillie very protective of Joey should men come knocking on her door.
That may be a simplistic view but it is the one I thought the producers wanted to portray.
i thought it was silly that she was suspicious of John being a doctor. There were black doctors long before the 60s (Laura Ingalls Wilder even wrote about one in Little House in the Prarie, set in the 1870s) and she must have known that.
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