SOURCE: Mayberry, Susan Neal. “Symbols in the Sewer: A Symbolic Renunciation of Symbols in Richard Wright's ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’.” South Atlantic Review 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 71-83.
In the following essay, Mayberry explores the heavy symbolism of Wright's short story “The Man Who Lived Underground.”
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