Read “Why I Like Country Music” by James Alan McPherson (p. 499).

This reading concludes our focus on Black American authors and McPherson became the first African-American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1977 with the publication of Elbow Room, his second collection.

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER FOR YOUR RESPONSE:

What is the effect of the letter as a literary device?

How would you describe the author’s tone?

Is the narrator the main character?

What is the effect of the argument motif in the story?