Author, Nellie McKay in her book review of Trudier Harris’s, Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin argues that Harris’s book studies the psychological pitfalls of Baldwin’s Black female characters (Chicago Journal 344). She supports her claim by mentioning Harris’s cross – examination of Baldwin’s four novels and collection of short stories, then McKay traces Harris’s developments of each female character’s psychological problems by comparing them to other female characters’ psychological problems, within the dynamics of Baldwin’s literary works. In her review, she also examines how Harris begins her study by examining Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain. She briefly mentions how Harris’s study sheds light on Baldwin’s
