Elsa voices her opinion by saying Katrina should get rid of that “drunken bully” (p23), because in Elsa’s opinion, Katrina can find “Find somebody who will value her as a human being’ and she also says ““She has got a few rights, Miss Helen, and I just want to make sure she knows what they are.” (p23) She makes her opinion known to the “insiders” of the conformed town such as Harris the good pastor of the town, (as she and Miss Helen are the outsiders) because she values freedom of speech and the right to be heard, for example, the conversation of “Gertruida”, Miss Helen, alongside the rest of the town is appalled by this woman who would like to open a bottle store in this Afrikaner town. She believed that all women have rights and can get the support they would need as the law states it. Elsa is not the Main role in the book however she is the most vocal of the three characters in the play when it came to rights and equality. Now one of the major themes of the play, is that of women’s rights and the issues woman have to undertake in their lives whether she be single? Married or having an affair. As we discover further into the book that Elsa tries to brush off her new beliefs on to Miss Helen by making her aware of how all races and genders should be treated equally and fairly Alas this gives us an indication that the country’s way of life has caused them both pain misery and difficulties. Helen is stuck in this conservative and narrow minded little Afrikaner town trying to live her life with her statues and her candles, and along comes Elsa from the city who lives in a world where its best to keep quiet and believe that white is right and to speak up and out against the government is looking for trouble. ”(p23), she wants to make sure woman know and understand that they have a right to and they have a voice to speak up against what’s wrong.
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