![]() His thoughts race, and he feels the desire "to hold, hold her, hold her, and be buried in her like a child and never have to get up in the morning again and go downtown to face those faces." Jesse's thoughts clearly indicate that he is afraid of the resistance he's been facing at work. And he wasn’t old enough yet to have any trouble getting it up-he was only forty-two." Jesse wants his wife to help relieve his sexual frustration, but thinks that as his wife, and as a white woman, he couldn't ask her to do any of the degrading sexual acts that he thinks would spark his desire. The narrator states, "He was a big, healthy man and he had never had any trouble sleeping. Jesse finds himself having trouble performing, sexually. He tries to explain to his wife what happened at work that day, but she barely listens because she's trying to sleep. Of course for Jesse, who believes that white supremacy is simply the natural order of things, this resistance seems evil and unprecedented. ![]() It is told from the extreme-close third-person perspective of a forty-two-year-old police officer named Jesse, and begins with a scene where Jesse, lying in bed with his wife Grace, tries to describe the trouble he is having at work combating the resistance of the black community in their county against the extreme and violent abuses of the white men in power. ![]() ![]() The final story, " Going to Meet the Man," is also the title story of Baldwin's collection. ![]()
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