Who is Bets in the play, Fairview?

Bets is the fourth of the non-black characters whose interactions define and develop the narrative of Act Two, and into Act Three. Like Suze, she seems somewhat older than the male characters. Unlike any of the other three Act Two characters, however, she seems to have come into the narrative from a place other than America. Her dialogue and language seem to have some kind of European accent, and she speaks of both America and its race problem as someone who observes it from outside, rather than lives it from within. Nevertheless, she reveals herself to be just as racist as the other three Act Two characters, and just as limited in her stereotypical beliefs about black people. When she appears as Mama in Act Three, she is more sensual and more outgoing than Suze (Mama), a representation of what she thinks of as black female physicality and musicality.