Big Black Good ManCharacter analysis
Richard Wright’s “Big Black Good Man” is a short story set in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1957. ... That is, until big, black, Jim walked into his hotel. ... To Olaf, Jim was a big, black, mass of man, almost inhuman in appearance. ... In 1957 he would not have encountered many black faces in Copenhagen except for those in the military. Black men received more respect over sees than in the USA where they didn’t have much say. ... Everything changes when a big, black man with power and money stumbles into his hotel and starts demanding things. ... He doesn’t think this black man has any right to exist, because he’s not his idea of “normal”. ... He knew he was very wrong about this “Big, Black, Good, Man” Ten years later he could see people in a different light.