Ann Petry’s Short Story Like a Winding Sheet Essay -- Ann Petry Windin

Ann Petrys Short Story equivalent a Winding SheetIn Ann Petrys 1945 short story Like a Winding Sheet,. Johnson is a black male struggling with racial discrimination and societal pressures. Johnson faces many challenges. As one reads, one cannot help but feel his angriness, frustration and tenseness. Petry tells it in the following way, "The knowledge that he had infatuated her seeped through him slowly and he was appalled but he couldnt drag his hands away from her face." Petry goes on further to tell us, "He had lost all control over his hands." This rage Johnson is experiencing is described as a "winding sheet". Johnsons everyday routine causes anger and frustration to build up inside him. Get up, go to lick and come home get up, go to work and come home. The routines...