“I think it may be easier to love the really helpless younger brother because he cannot enter into competition with one on one’s own ground, or on any ground at all, and can never question one’s role, or jeopardize one’s authority. In my own case, certainly, it did not occur to me until much later-to compete with Caleb. I could not have questioned his role or authority because I needed both. He was my touchstone, my model, and my only guide. But there is always, on the other hand, something in a younger brother which eventually comes to resent this. The day comes when he is wiling to destroy his older brother simply because he had depended on him so long. The day comes when he recognizes what a combination of helplessness, and hard-hearted calculation go into the creation of the role, and to what extent authority is a delicate, difficult, deadly game of chance.”
James Baldwin, “Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone”, 1968.
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