I'm here because THEM was not making any sense to me and I'm an advocate for being pushed to think outside of the box and this failed to do so for me which is why I had to google its purpose. I'm just trying to figure out why is Lena always creating trauma reminders for African-Americans? We shall overcome, but not if it's left up to Lena. It makes me question who is she really for? The portrayal that everyone in the family was suffering mentally seemed to be a repeated theme from some of her other works.