The Man Who Was Almost A Man Analysis

In The Short Story, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man", by Richard Wright the author narrates on the story of Dave, a young, African-American farm laborer struggling in the racist atmosphere of the rural South. The author shows that Dave's fantasy is to own a gun to make him feel more like a man, and how he thinks owning a gun would allow him to stand up to his fellow workers giving him power over them as well as respect from them. Wright then takes his fantasy and shows the bad consequences that come along with having possession of a gun. The behavior that Dave shows when a gun comes into his possession reveals just how much of a man Dave does not become.
As the title suggests, Dave is in a stage between boyhood and adulthood. In various