Positive/Negative Change

At the end of Part 1 Wright is setting in motion his move to the north. There are plans, dreams, and insinuations that the change will be positive, but we the reader do not yet know where Wright's path will take him. Indeed, some of the comments of the white men Wright was working with seemed foreboding, and in a novel I would likely assume that this was purposeful. They suggest that the north isn't all it's cracked up to be, and that he will be unhappy there. However, we do not yet know if the white men have some insight Wright lacks or if they are merely defending their southern lifestyle or even just trying to keep a worker. Regardless, the north will likely be a step up in quality of life for Wright, but may not live up to all of his expectations, perhaps becoming a negative change just because he will have reached the fabled land of milk and honey and found it only slightly better than the desert. Even worse, the promised land was his destination and he will have few other options to seek out a life better than the one in the north. Whether this move will break his dream or the conditions will be improved enough to at least temporarily sate his hunger for equality is something, I suppose, that remains to be seen.