The story basically deals with colour and social discrimination between the Blacks and the Whites prevalent during the time after the civil war in US
The Library Card: Summary and Critical Analysis
The Library Card - Richard Wright Literal Comprehension The narrator in the story once happened to read in the newspaper 'Commercial Appeal' a bitter criticism on H.L. Mencken, a White man who was also an editor of an American Newspaper. From this, he developed his keen interest in knowing the reason why he was severely attacked, though he was white, since during that time only the blacks were the victims of hate and exploitation: As such, he wanted to read something about him. But, being Black, he didn't have any access to the library. Yet he somehow managed to get the books from the library by using the library card of his boss. He, by reading the books of Mencken, came to understand the reality of his life as well as the life of the blacks. He realized that Mencken was criticized because of his hardest words over everything American and his appreciation of everything European. Even he discovered that words could be used as weapons. His knowledge about the unjust treatment a…
