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The guard is mainstream society’s last representative; the inmate, its most marginal man.

But knowing that the painter was a black freedman prompts one to speculate about the relationship between the solidly respectable sitter and the socially marginal man who immortalised him.

To some of the more sophisticated in the game, he rates as a marginal man.

We have heard much about the "marginal man," but the first concern of society should be for the bottom man.

Such thought takes account of the 'marginal man' too.