This is a two-story red brick house; the stairs access the upper floor and each floor has a single window overlooking the courtyard; this is a house where I will spend every day. Being a foreigner and coming from another country, I never worried about what would have happened in those red brick houses half a century ago. However, the play Seven Guitars depicts a bitter story that takes place in the red brick house of Pittsburgh. In history, someone has suffered blatant discrimination; someone betrayed his morality for chasing his dream; someone killed his “friend” for money; someone lost their lover immediately after deciding to leave with him; someone has hidden a secret; someone has revealed the mystery of a death and someone has just witnessed all those things happen. So, Seven Guitars refers to seven characters who describe the life of African Americans in 1940s Pittsburgh, the place where I live today. The plot was expanded by Louise's dirty song, when they came from Floyd's funeral, which makes I wonder why the author: August Wilson arranges the characters to act so calmly that Louise still wants to sing and Red and Canewell argue with each other over a piece of cake after experiencing the loss of their close friend. Except Vera, who is Floyd's lover, asks the others if they saw six angels taking Floyd to heaven, the rest of the characters ask Vera for beers and talk about letting the same reverend who appears at Floyd's funeral preach theirs too funerals in a casual tone. Why do they act like nothing bad happened? Are they trying to hide their sadness or are they used to dealing with the loss of their friend? These questions occupied my mind as... middle of paper... r, when Floyd and Hedley had both found the money that allowed them to realize their dreams, Floyd pointed his gun at Canewell, and Hedley waved his machete and ultimately killed Floyd. As Floyd falls on stage, my heart breaks in resonance with the miserable life of African Americans in 1940s Pittsburgh. I saw how people struggle with the unjust fate assigned to them and how brutal reality destroys their dreams and their humanity; I saw that there was a group of people singing, dreaming, fighting, loving and dying in the red brick house, which I could pass by every day, all in this August Wilson masterpiece. It is always difficult to reopen the serious wound of the dark period of American history; however, harmfulness would be the most effective way to force people to think about the consequences of the story.