By being forced to empathize with society's supposed outsiders, such as Cholly Breedlove, the reader challenges the assumption that readers of American fiction only think from one perspective white. The novel, if read carefully, changes the trend of white audiences by making the reader aware of the inner workings of a racialized imagination and the consequences of not questioning that workings. This awareness causes the reader to begin to question the consequences of a racialized imagination in others