Telephone Conversation

In the Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the poet talks about two persons on the phone,
and the tale goes on to tell how the African guy is seeking a house, and the land woman has suggested a
high price for it. The poem ends on a good note when the guy realizes his privacy will not be invaded
because the landlady does not live on the grounds.

The African guy is relieved to hear this, and just before deciding whether or not to accept the
offer, he mentions his race. Nothing was quiet on the other end of the queue, which the African guy
interprets as an unfriendly refusal gesture. However, the stillness is quickly broken as the landlady begins
to talk again, asking him to describe how dark he is. The person initially accepts he misheard the inquiry,
yet when the proprietor rehashes it, he understands that she should be aware of this before permitting
him to lease her place.

This sort of thing came out as destroying for the African man, and briefly, he felt nauseated by
request and likes himself to be a machine, like a telephone, and that he has been reduced to being a
button on the telephone. He could similarly smell the foul from her words and saw red anywhere. The
purpose of the telephone call is to show how nasty it may be for a man exposed to racial prejudice. The
Afro-American guy is humiliated and at the other side, he enters a state of delusion in which he
sarcastically believes that the lady broke her silence and offered him the opportunity to pick and define
how dark he is. Like chocolate.

Then he says that his visa depicts him as West African Sepia. Not understanding how dark it may
be, the lady didn't want to insult the man any further by remaining silent. So she requests that he explain
what he implies. The man answers that it is similar to being a brunette, yet all the same, a dim brunette.
The man has been clinging to formality, which bursts out when the landlady is inconsiderate. The African
man now exclaims loudly that he is black but not so black that anyone should be ashamed of him. He
likewise says that the bottoms of his feet and the center of his hand are white, yet he is a nitwit that sits
on his back, which has become dark because of rubbing. He realizes the proprietor won't ever be
persuaded by his dark tone, and he detects that she could throw down the recipient on him. At such a
significant point, he makes a frantic and senseless endeavor to argue for her to come and look hard and
long at him, yet he can't help what is going on from deteriorating. At last, the landowner throws down the
collector all over.

The Telephone Conversation in the underlying five lines raises the issue of race. A black man
searching for a space for lease tracks down a proposal at a sensible cost in the commercials. He settles on
a telephone decision with the property's landlord and admits he is a black man. The initial line shows that
the black man knows about the twofold norms. He settles on a telephone decision to affirm that the room
is genuinely accessible for a black man. It additionally uncovers that the black man has had severe
encounters previously. He probably accepted the 'no distinction' point in the commercials and moved
toward the landowners. They ought to have rejected him after realizing he is black.

LIYANAH NICOLE M. CANATA