In his literary works,Richard Wright reveals in his specific way American racial relations in the 1930s and 1940s and maintains that racial segregation and the color line socially break up the symbiotic relation between blacks and whites,which results in the misunderstanding and mistrust between the black race and the white one.

By interpreting the writer s combination of humor with the solemnity of moralities, as well as the strong regional sense of the South, the typical southern themes such as race relations, loneliness, equality and justice expressed in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee s inheritance and development of the Sout.