The present study attempts to explore the negative use of power and its inevitable repercussions on the lives of the concerned characters in Horton Foote's (1916Foote's ( -2009) ) Dividing The Estate (2008) in the light of Lynda Ann Ewen's conception of ‗power' in her book Social Stratification and Power in America: A View From Below .Ewen classifies power into -positive power‖ and -negative power...