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woman was apologetic, as though it embarrassed her for a stranger to

see Mississippi’s dirty linen.1(pg 63) Up to this point in the novel

Griffin experiences exactly what he expects to experience. He is

taunted with typical racial slurs, and other forms of hostility, which

he is able to brush off as meaningless ignorance. This bus driver is

denying the black customers the most basic of human needs. The bus

driver attempts to not only humiliate them by forcing them to defecate

and urinate in public on the bus, but the bus driver is also attempting

to show all of the white customers what savages that the blacks are.

Griffin never expects to receive anger and hate to this degree.

Everywhere that he goes in Mississippi is full of hatred, and spite.

As I walked down Mobile Street, a car full of white men

and

boys sped past. They yelled obscenities at me. A satsuma flew past my

head and broke against a building. The street was loud and raw, with

tension as thick as fog. I felt the insane terror of it. When I

entered the store of my second contact, we talked in low voices.

Another car roared down the street, and the street was suddenly

deserted of Negroes, but then we appeared shortly.2(Page 67) For the

first time while in Mississippi Griffin realizes that there are many

individuals, who, if given the chance, would kill him simply because he

is black. It is in Mississippi that he begins to identify with the

blacks and begins to fully see himself as a black. Had he stayed in the

more Northern states he probably would never have progressed to this

state of mind. Griffin begins to understand that part of the reason for

the hatred of blacks by many whites is because of the stereotypical

image of the Negro in the 50’s.

In Mississippi he confronts racial stereotypes directed towards

him that prompt him to realize how deeply rooted society’s