Big Black Good Man | Summary
“Big Black Good Man” opens on an August night in Copenhagen, Denmark. The year is not specified, but the setting seems to be contemporary with the time of the story’s writing, the late 1950s. Olaf Jenson sits in the office in a cheap hotel that caters to sailors and students. Jenson, the night porter, will be sixty years old the next day. He finishes a beer, smokes a cigar, and reflects on his comfortable, unremarkable life.
It is late, and Jenson is about to take a nap when a very large black man opens the office door and asks for a room. Jenson is so taken aback by the...
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