The narrator of this work claims that he begins to understand what Lionel Trilling meant by "culture is a prison" when he's unable to write a letter to his wife in Hattiesburg.
The narrator of this work claims that he begins to understand what Lionel Trilling meant by "culture is a prison" when he's unable to write a letter to his wife in Hattiesburg. Earlier, that narrator meets at the Y Coffee Shop with A. L. Davis and J. P. Guillory.  He notices the book For Men of Good Will written by Father Robert Guste sitting on a coffee table, after he meets with Sam Gandy, the dean of Dillard College. Near the beginning, the narrator surprises Sterling Williams during a shoeshine in New Orleans. He does not listen to the warnings of Adele Jackson and George Levitan, who operate Sepia magazine, a publication that finances the narrator's project, which he prepares for by taking methoxsalen and sitting under an ultraviolet lamp. FTP, name this book by John Howard Griffin, which chronicles his travels passing as a black man. 
The narrator of this work claims that he begins to understand what Lionel Trilling meant by "culture is a prison" when he's unable to write a letter to his wife in Hattiesburg.
Black Like Me