Status Updates From If Beale Street Could Talk

cannot abandon his mother, yet longs to be free to con. front his life; is terrified at the same time of what that life may bring, is terrified of freedom; and is struggling in a trap. And Fonny, who is younger, struggles now to be older, in order to help his friend toward his deliverance.

Daniel, who eats peacefully, not knowing that we are laughing, but sensing that something wonderful has happened to us, which means that wonderful things hap-pen, and that maybe something wonderful will happen to him.