The Long Dream | The Long Dream

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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 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...

The Long Dream | The Long Dream

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