Psychological Critical Lens

When examining my citation through a psychological critical lens we question what can we learn about psychology, the workings of the mind and behavior, from this text? From this text and the time this story took place we can analyze the mind and behaviors in this text. We can see that in the north there doesn’t seem to be signs of bigots’ yet. Of course there may be some but for all the things he has done in the north he hasn’t gotten into trouble. If he did the same actions in the south he would be in trouble. We see him touching skin with a white women. To us we see this as normal because he is not sexually harassing her or anything. In his head he thinks he is about to go to jail. He literally gets so stressful that he ends up getting off …show more content…
In one of the chapters there was a black police officer. People were actually consulting black people and the narrator was stunned by this because he has never in his life been exposed to this. So from my citation we can see the difference in culture and views. What does this mean? My quote is expressing how the different customs can strike fear into people who aren’t used to a certain experience. My citation matters because it shows how culture is different depending on where you go. Also it affect my thinking about myself because I am black and I have white friends and I can’t imagine being scared of able to shake hands or even talking to my friends. Realizing this makes me feel grateful because I am able to interact with whoever I want regardless of their race. What does my quote literally mean? It means that the narrator was on a subway with a white women and he was very close to her to the point where their flesh are touching. The narrator has a hard time dealing with white people. He is smart but he doesn’t know what he can actually do with his mind. We see how Dr. Bledsoe shows his true colors in his office when he expelled the