In chapter 9, the narrator is feeling optimistic and confident as he goes to his meeting with Mr. Emerson, one of the "important people" to whom Dr. Bledsoe has written a letter on his behalf. He meets with the younger Mr. Emerson, the "important" guy's son, and the meeting does not go as the narrator had hoped. By the end of the chapter, the narrator is vowing to kill Bledsoe as an act of revenge.
Discuss your impressions of the younger Mr. Emerson in your group: What do you make of this guy? What does the narrator make of him? In the end, do you see him as an ally of the narrator, or an antagonist/obstacle to his development? Does Emerson's intervention advance the narrator's development of critical consciousness at all?
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