In “On the Subway”, by Sharon Olds, she speaks about how a white female sees a black male on the subway and she points out many differences between them. First, she was being suspicious about his look. Then, she felt vulnerable and anxious about him taking her fur coat, her briefcase, or her life. Later, she felt bigger and powerful than this black male because of her skin color. She first used imagery to describe the looks of the black male she saw on the subway. She described him as a criminal because of his “casual cold look of a mugger, alert under hooded lids”. “I look at his raw face, he looks at my fur coat” lines 13 and 14, the speaker talked about fearing him because of his eye contact with her fur coat. “He could take my coat so
