Why did the black race think about their life as a white person? Racial discrimination was very popular before and after the slave trade. In Richard Wright's short story "The Man Who Lived Underground," the main character's search for identity involves his struggle for meaning in this judgmental world. The story concerns Fred Daniels, an African American man accused of murdering a white woman named Mrs. Peabody. As he attempts to rebuild his life in the sewers, he examines his assumptions about guilt and innocence and comes to believe that people are inherently guilty and isolated from each other. This short story was deeply discussed with other authors and critics who included their thoughts on how the story was contradicted. These critics only acknowledge controversial themes, but Wright nevertheless frequently dealt with practical and universal themes that were ignored throughout, based on the topics written in these essays. Cynthia Bily's essay focused on topics that revolve around race and she often summarizes the events that occur. what sets it apart. Bily wrote in her essay that this story about how white racism oppresses African Americans (which is profoundly true), she brings together information from scientific books from around the world to prove her theory that Wright came to to believe that racism was only a symptom of an oppressive and corrupt system. human nature. The scene at the end of the story where Lawson (the policeman) shoots the black man and tells him, “You have to kill his kind.” They would destroy things” (p. 60). This type of statement is a perfect example of how racism has created a deep corruption in human nature. Bily agrees throughout sections of his essay about Wright's int...... middle of article ......n. Overall, this story is considered to be more of a social commentary, but it is thought of differently by others. So far all the reviewers have explained in detail every detail and every thought they believe about this story, but only one stood out among them. Shirley Meyer presented by far the strongest essay in my opinion, not least because she included how it differed from another book published by the same author. Meyer gave her opinion on what she believes and she found evidence that could prove her statements from most of the events that happened in the book and in public sources. The sentence at the end earned my approval of the essay she wrote, it is more of a social essay. comment, words no one would have suspected existed and something people should be aware of.