Richard Wright\'s\"The Man Who Was Almost A Man\"

Richard Wrights brief narrative The earthly concern Who Was Almost A Man is the written report of a 17-year-old gray black y egressh, Dave Saunders, who believes that having a bomber entrust give him the superpower and respect he lacks in a world in which he is bossed around by his parents as well as by the pureness man, Jim Hawkins, on whose work he works. He believes having a gun will line him a man. He buys the gun, accidentally kills Hawkins scuff, gets caught, and takes score on a train in the middle of the wickedness with his gun: in front the long cut were glinting in the moonlight, stretching by, away to somewhere, somewhere where he could be a man \nThe story on a symbolic level, in Robert Felgars analysis, has both(prenominal) phallic and racial/ genial elements: Aside from its demonstrable phallic significance, the pistol is an emblem of manly strength in a wider wizard; it represents power, mobility, respect. Felgar argues that the shooting of the mule was no accident, yet was at least(prenominal) a subconscious mind touch extinct by Dave against both the white oppressor Hawkins and the en hard workerd take time off of himself: Although Dave does not have the psychological nitty-gritty of the accident, the killing of jenny can be interpreted on one level as Daves striking out at the oppressor by destroying his lieu; but, on a more rousing level, she represents that side of himself, his slave mentality, that he would care to blot out; he does not want to be a mule for the white man.