What is the author's style in The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler?

The work is operating in the third person omniscient point of view. This claim is substantiated particularly by the use of dramatic monologue that often provides insight into the motivations or feelings of many characters of the play, as opposed to being relevant only to those actions of the speaker. Not only does it predict a character's movements, but this insight also draws the audience in, giving them a variety of perspectives from various characters of various races. Scipio's monologue, for example, is a deeper exploration into Jack's views of what it means to operate as a "cullud" rather than as an individual. Statements made by Jack, which came off as callous or harsh, now take on a nobler meaning in light of Scipio's remarks.

Other insights change or transform perceptions of a character's motivations completely. Clara, for example, is presented as someone spurned by love and driven simply by jealousy, after Jack rejects her for a white woman. During Clara's monologue, she pleads to the audience, "drag him on down. Oh won'tya, fo me an mah momma an evvy black-ass woman he turn his back on, for evvy gal wid a man longside dreamin him a piece a what he got." Clara's dialogue is revealing. She is no longer simply a crazy, money-grubbing ex-girlfriend. The audience sees Clara's deeper motivations. She is a victim, seeing herself as one of many black women rejected by men of her own race who seek to aspire to white values, men who voluntarily put the love and support of those black women behind them for the sake of personal gain.