Wright's The Man Who Loved Underground: Summary
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Richard Wright's, The Man Who Lived Underground, is a surrealistic
story about a man who comes to a new consciousness of his own and the
actual condition of society as a result of his retreat underground after
being labeled a guilty social being. This great irony takes place after a
young black m ....
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.... beginning of Daniels' separation from regular society. He decides
to hide when he notices a manhole cover on the ground. "The cover clanged
into place, muffling the sights and sounds of the upper world. . . the rite
of separation is complete; the opposition between "aboveground" and
"underground" is firmly established" (Bloom 147). Though at times in his
journey, Daniels does go aboveground, he never again crosses that border
until the very end of the story when he goes up for the ....
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