Baldwin, p. 2010). After asking himself he looked to his mother and felt, “she was more beautiful than he had ever seen her before” and “he began to feel a joy he had never felt before”(Baldwin, p. 2010). After the Negro genitals were mutilated he was left to slowly die, the father looked to Jesse with peaceful eyes and said, “Well, I told you, you wasn’t ever going to forget this picnic”(Baldwin, p.2010). It is as this moment that Freud’s Edipus complex is once again displayed. The bonding and identification felt by Jesse toward the father has replaced the longing for the mother. “Jesse loved his father more than he had ever loved him”(Baldwin, p. 2010). He feels like a man because, “his father had carried throught a mighty test, had revealed to him a great secret which would be the key to his life forever.” He subconsciously traded his innocence for closness to his father. "There has surely been no black writer better able to imagine whit experience, to speack in various tones of differents kinds and behaviors of people or places other than his own"(Klinkowtiz and Pritchard, p. 1999). Going to Meet the Man allows readers to recongnize how a racist is built through ingnorance. Baldwin ends his story with Jesse in bed with his wife. The memories of the mutilation of the negro arise in his mind and he feels arrounsed. He turns to his wife and says, "Come on sugar, I'm going to do you like a nigger." Jesse cannot recognize that these memories of the lynching have made him sexually arroused by violence. As a result, he has become a violent man with a disturbed idea of love, sex and blacks. ...
