Wright's Final Analysis

Wright comes to the conclusion by the end of the story that everyone is suffering, similarly to how he himself suffered. The whites too are suffering, albeit in a different way. Wright comes to realize this for the first time at the end of the novel. His experience throughout the story has been colored by the indecencies he has had to put up with. Whites however are suffering too, in a different, but very real way. Wright's dreams of being a writer do not seem to be going anywhere in these last pages for the simple fact that he does not feel he has an audience to write too. He tosses the figurative spark out at the end to try and determine whether his writing will have an audience at all.