During his being a black person he witnessed many things, that amazed him, and sent him out of his mind.
While being a black person, Griffin has witnessed many things. At first he noticed the hate stare that is used by white people. He couldn't believe what he is seeing, especially when he once walked up to a ticket counter in a train station. He went through something that he has never been in all his life. As Griffin mentions "I walked up to the ticket counter. When the lady ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so. This look was so unexpected and unprovoked I was taken aback" (52) He points how surprised he is, from the lady's look toward him. As if he is something lower than she, or not a human being as she is. Again he continued telling the story "She jerked the bill furiously from my hand and stepped away form the window. In a moment she reappeared to hurl my change and the ticket on the counter with such force most of it fell on the floor at my feet. I was really dumfounded by this deep fury that possessed her whenever she looked at me"(52-53) He explains how shocking and embarrassing it is for him being in a situation like this. In addition to all that Griffin mentions "He sat a few yards away, fixing his eyes on me. Nothing can describe the withering honor of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as insanity; something so obscene the very obscenity of it (Rather than its threat) terrifies you."(53), Griffin describes the terrible feeling a black person feels under these .
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circumstances, which lead us to our first conclusion about Griffin's wondering if it is easy for the person whose receiving discrimination. .
Furthermore as he continues his journey, some Negroes have warn Griffin to watch himself in Mississippi as a Negro. Pointing out some warns he received by a .
