Richard Wright (1908-1960)
"The Man Who Lived Underground"

Things To Consider:

  • Naturalism
  • Light/Dark Imagery
  • Rat Imagery
  • Water Imagery
  • Guilt vs. Innocence
  • Role of the Church
  • Dreams
  • Plato's Allegory of the Cave
  • Aristotle's Poetics
  • Story of Jesus
  • Dante, Inferno
  • Dostoevsky, Notes from Umderground
  • Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

** Homework Questions **

"The Man Who Lived Underground" (1944)
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"Group Questions" for "The Man Who Lived Underground"

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