Her brother bursts in in the middle of the night. Boy Willie (Stephen Tyrone Williams in an electrifying performance, even more impressive since he joined the cast only two weeks ago) is up from the Deep South with a truckload of watermelons (a nicely satirical iconic image). A scoffer and schemer who struts like a rooster, he is also an impassioned man of the land. He plans to sell the piano and go back home to buy a farm. Berniece refuses to sell it: "Money can't buy what that piano cost."