Jean Toomer

In Darwin T. Turner's Introduction to the 1975 Edition of Jean Toomer's Crane, the writer tries to gives us a fuller understanding of the author, his era, and his works. From the depiction of Toomer's life and philosophies, we can immediately like the character because he was an individual who analyzed himself and others "Cane was not Toomer's life; it was perhaps merely an interlude in his search for understanding" (Turner 138).

Toomer not only tried to understand himself and his own experiences, he also tried to understand the human experience as it applied to human beings universally. In particular, he sought to bring about a higher degree of humanity and rac

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