Gratification

Richard Wright creates the short story about an Indian girl for numerous reasons. Wright lives in a bleak, hopeless world. In an attempt to escape that world Wright writes a short ‘story’ about an Indian girl with no plot or action. Wright then shares his story with a young lady that lives down the street from him. The girl doesn’t understand the story and doesn’t understand why Wright would ever write it. I believe this is why Wright is gratified in writing it.
The girl did not need to understand the story or even praise it. Wright feels his gratification when the woman questions him why he would write it. This is Wright’s justification in his superiority over the woman. Subconsciously Wright knows writing this story is intelligent and an emotional release. He knows he has transcended himself beyond this woman simply in imagining the premise of the story. He stepped into a world this woman could never begin to comprehend. He enjoys her look of confusion and bewilderment because he knows he is beyond her on so many levels. He understands and imagines worlds this woman can’t even comprehend and Wright therefore can move beyond this woman’s intelligence.