Why does Walter hide that he enjoys reading in the book Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers?
In the book “Bad Boy” by Walter Dean Myers, he portrays his adolescent self as what might be called a “closeted reader,” someone who is passionate about reading but who considers it necessary to conceal it. Myers’s increasing secretiveness about his reading practices can thus be seen as a manifestation of a personal crisis related to his racial and masculine identity.There was a conflict between his developing identity as a reader and the expectations imposed on him as an African American male.
