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6. so dumb. Nor do I regard it as a real blemish on M's writing. It's interesting to me to speculate on his habits as having resulted from his bringing up (according to O'Leary) in a crossed out: poor white middle-class neighborhood, where he played exclusively with white children. The woman problem would in such a case become almost insoluble.

  Will I shock you if I comment that both Motley and Algren turned from middle class neighborhoods toward depicting the poor sympathetically because of personal maladjustment?  They are both examples of neurotic personalities who look elsewhere than their own class for the solution.  Motley's maladjustment is obvious from his background.  But Algren's is still mysterious to me.  His sister you know is a gym teacher in the Chicago schools.  I met people who knew her.  I think, like Wright, he must have been made to feel unwanted and despised in his youth.   It seems that I keep seeing this pattern everywhere - possibly because it is my own and the whole violent reaction from humiliation and hurt I can understand very well.