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Question: Read this excerpt from the story "Big Black Good Man," by Richard Wright. What argument do you think the author makes by showing us how a Danish hotel manager reacts upon seeing a black man asking for a room? What do you assume about how the two men will interact? "Olaf sat up slowly, not to answer but to look at this brooding black vision: it towered darkly some six and a half feet into the air, almost touching the ceiling, and its skin was so black that it had a bluish tint. And the sheer bulk of the man! His chest bulged like a barrel; his rocklike and humped shoulders hinted of mountain ridges; his stomach ballooned like a threatening stone; and the legs were like telephone pole. The big black cloud of a man now lumbered into the office, bending to get its buffalolike head under the doorframe, then advanced slowly upon Olaf."