The Outcast and the Misfit

The collection celebrates and laments individuals who do not fit into conventional society—the parson's son, the remittance man, the wanderer—finding both tragedy and a strange dignity in their exile.

The woman is an outcast, scorned by society, yet she knows the shame of the men who visit her, highlighting her role as a misfit who exposes hypocrisy.

The speaker's rejection of free will and embrace of determinism positions them as a misfit challenging conventional notions of personal responsibility.

The entire poem centers on men who do not fit into society, described as a 'race of men that don't fit in' and 'a man who won't fit in.'

The narrator is a white man living as a 'low-down white' among the Siwash, hiding his educated past and feeling utterly disgraced.