Chapter 8: Race, Class, and Redemption in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman.

Chapter 8 of the book "From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern & Postmodern American Narrative" is presented. It explores the novel "The Last Gentleman," by Walker Percy. According to the author, the novel is a central text for discussing Percy's social ethics because it presents an articulation of the relationship of an individual to social communities and the most expansive casting of social types, as well as his belief of the confusion of human identity and corruption in contemporary society.