Going to Meet the Man is a fiction story that examines both sexual and racial issues. A white man narrated this story because the story is about this white man and how he is dealing with the racial issue at hand. In doing so Baldwin has made the reader feel and visualize everything this man is going through during one particular night. Baldwin structures the narrative of this story to show the man in present time that night. The man's memory is then told. The memory starts at what happened earlier that day, then goes to what has been happening in the past couple of years, then to his childhood, and at the end the story ends back at present time. The night that Baldwin has chosen to reveal this man's thoughts and actions is the night after he beat, nearly to death, an African American boy earlier that day. The man whose name is Jesse is living during the black Americans civil rights era. Jesse has gone crazy because he feels that the whites will not be able to win this civil rights war against these young black people. Jesse reminisces on the times before these young black people had grown up. He reminisces on how times were so much easier. He could call and do whatever he wanted to black people. He would have sex with the black girls without any problems. He could call black people any name for they did not talk back to him. He had the power to scare these black people. Jesse even has a memory of when he was a boy and the white people had so much power over the blacks that they could take a black man and end his life in the most gruesome way. Jesse feels that he had complete control over this older generation of black Americans. Now however times are different the new generation of black people are not behaving like the old. Jesse no longer has control over this new generation and he has been psychologically damaged because of it. At the end of this story, Jesse is trying to recover by showing to himself t...