Vol. 6, Issue 10, Part C (2020)

Abstract
Richard Wright, The African-American writer is regarded as the father of black protest writing. He has always, through his writings, tried sincerely to explain the sickening reality of white racism of his country, America. His earlier writings have more fire than his later ones. This lack of comparative fury in his later works results in a literary laxity in them. As a result of this, the novels, short stories and essays of Wright, written after the forties are rather inferior in quality to those which precede that period. There is, however, a justification for that. In his later works, there is a very strong personal feature. This feature relates to the opening of his personality. He seems to have matured later. His thoughts in his later works seem more universal. In his initial works, Wright began with a lot of fire and smoke, but he settled later not only as a sober writer, but a sober person as well. Almost all the smoke of the initial period seems to have melted away.