Comparing Spunk and Big Black Good Man
... First off, the characters of Spunk ("Spunk") and Jim ("Big Black Good Man") have a few common traits that are impossible to look beyond. ... Finally, Joe ("Spunk") and Olaf ("Big Black Good Man") share many simliar qualities including their timid nature and the resulting pent up frustration. Spunk and Jim share a bond in a few major personality characteristics. ... In "Spunk", Spunk is described as a "giant of a brown-skinned man" (276) and in "Big Black Good Man" , Jims large and strong appearance is described in great detail. ... Spunk once boasts "Lena, youse mine. ... " while in the company of Joe (277) and Jim belittles Olaf by saying "Thats too heavy for you, big boy; Ill take it. ... Now Lena is the name shared by Joes wife in "Spunk" and the prostitute in "Big Black Good Man". ... In "Spunk", Lena is the cause of Joes death and in "Big Black Good Man", Lena is the cause of Jims gratitude towards Olaf which almost ends in disaster.