Boy Willie in August Wilsons The Piano Lesson
... Cannon Boy Willie in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson In August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, the main character, Boy Willie, is faced with the obstacle of not having sufficient funds to purchase the land he feels he desperately needs. Boy Willie’s through line is to sell his family’s most prized possession, a piano with the family’s history hand carved on it, to purchase land or to make his sister, Berniece play it. The main character’s objective is to sell his family’s piano. When Boy Willie arrives to Berniece’s home, he has his mind set on buying the same land that their father worked as a slave year’s ago.