The narrator of "why, you reckon? " commits a crime. do you think langston hughes, the author of the story, blames the narrator or society for the crime? does the narrator commit the crime out of selfishness or desperation? provide an example from the story to explain your reasoning.

Hughes is blaming the inequality of class and race in society for the crime the man commits. He does this out of desperation, because of his extreme poverty. The white man is excited by the whole event, and when the narrator asks "Why you reckon they ain't happy?", it is Hughes' way of pointing out the difference in the way people view their status and wealth. 

The details that best show evidence of tribal traditions are, "never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue” and "it has never been heard," was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.