The Singing Man (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Fielding Dawson
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Plot: Vignette
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: The Singing man, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Blacks, New York City, Singing or singers, Stereotypes
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
The anonymous narrator describes a local celebrity of sorts who regularly visits his east-side neighborhood: a large black man who pushes a hand truck and makes various kinds of deliveries. What distinguishes him from the others who make deliveries is that he sings loudly and attracts considerable attention: “The man who sings is the object of a lot of response and the victim of a million silent and spoken jokes, but there is no stopping him, because he really loves to sing.” Although the black and Latino men admire him, and even envy his complete lack of...
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