baldwin写这部隐含的the anguish of ppl trapped in a legend — they cannot live within this legend; neither can they step out of it 这里的*legend*指代一个幻象人与畜禽交互MOUSE这个幻象是virgil代表的英雄一个因为smarter than all the white men but not bc they r all human being 所以被接受的bubble /“smth strangling, alive, struggling to get out ”