At one point she is convinced that Hoke has pilfered a can of salmon from her cupboard, and she asserts that having black employees is 'like having little children in the house. Miss Daisy, on the other hand, is inclined to make unflattering generalizations about blacks. For example, Hoke asks Boolie whether he and his mother are Jewish, declaring that though people are always saying Jews are 'stingy and they cheap,' he insists that they 'don' say none of that 'roun' me.' Hoke, in other words, doesn't share the Gentile prejudice against Jews. Most obviously affected by the social and racial milieu of the South are the personal relationships between the white Werthans and Hoke, the black chauffeur. Daisy, on the other hand, insists on her Jewishness in spite of the overwhelmingly Christian identity of the Southern community around her. Boolie also refuses to attend a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King because he is fearful of being stereotyped as a Jewish liberal. Boolie, for example, is so eager to fit in with his Christian colleagues that he decorates his house for Christmas, something his mother finds contemptible. The ethnic tensions that have often been associated with this region affect the social attitudes of the Jewish Werthan family.

The specific locations range from Miss Daisy's house, to Boolie's office, to Hoke's house, to the interior of Miss Daisy's car en route to various destinations. Most of the play is set in Atlanta, Georgia, with some action occuring on the road in Alabama.

Driving miss daisy story by alfred uhry