Each of these statements I believe are true. The first statement says that Styron's pre-eminent in his instinct for tragedy and respect for the sheer force of human feeling. Styron is outstanding in his ability to understand and un-tentatively explore the deeper and often darker aspects of the human psych. In pieces such as Sophie's Choice, a tragic tale about a young woman who survives the Holocaust and the Essays of Benjamin Reid, an essay of a poor black man on death row, he explores unimaginable atrocities committed on humans by humans and the jagged facet of discrimination that mares…
