The Long Dream (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Wright
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s and the 1940’s
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Rex (Fishbelly) Tucker, Tyree Tucker, Gladys, Dr. Bruce, Gloria, Cantley
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Murder or homicide, Police, 1940’s, 1930’s, Fear, Mississippi, Business or business people, Corruption, Dancing or dancers
- Locales: Mississippi
The Novel
The Long Dream is set in Clintonville, a Mississippi town of twenty-five thousand people, ten thousand of them black. The narrative is told from the point of view of Rex Tucker, nicknamed Fishbelly, a name his friends have shortened to Fish. The story begins when Fishbelly is a young child. He is the son of a prosperous black businessman whose undertaking business provides a front for his other enterprises, including ownership of many dilapidated rental properties, a bordello whose prostitutes and customers are black, and coownership with Dr. Bruce, a...
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