Dr. K.Velmurugan, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
Department of English, University College of Engineering, Panruti A Constituent College of Anna University, Chennai, India.
An Analysis of Existentialism in Richard Wright’s Novel the Outsider
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Abstract
Why were some people fated, like Job, to live a never-ending debate between themselves
and their sense of what they believed life should be’? (Wright 24). This question posed by
protagonist Cross Damon in Richard Wright’s novel The Outsider (1953). It illustrates his
alienated position from society and his feeling that he has lost his control of his life; this is a
representation of the segregated position of the African American.