“Juneteenth” THE RESEARCH PAPER Ellison’s Juneteenth is a layered and subtly allusive book. It depends heavily on a stream of consciousness style, and it asks for a greater demand on the reader who seeks to learn about it and grasp it’s whole. The settings and landscapes of the book are almost entirely psychological and dialogical, and easy to get lost in. Juneteenth’s formal derangement’s reflect a grown man’s crafted, carefully …showed first 75 words of 890 total…

…showed last 75 words of 890 total…so, like Bliss we fail to complete ourselves. We cannot develop a solid integrity. We work at cross purposes with other people and within our own hearts. We may even destroy ourselves. Ellison’s ambiguity about whether Bliss is white or black in my opinion is deliberate. All Americans are both black and white regardless of skin color. We can never achieve the wholeness that might be ours if we could sustain our original attachment.