Black and White. They are the characters by name and race, but the negative in outlook. I admired the dialogue and shouldn't have expected a resolution. It's a pretty reasonable outcome from a dialogue between nihilism and protestant christianity. Not much ground there for fruitful discussion. In the end both characters are left in the conditions with which they began. White set on self-destruction and Black reassuring God that his faith is not broken.

But, it can't be left well enough alone. White can't escape the fact that to rationalize the need to commit suicide and to carry it out, he must have free will which provides him with opportunities that include life. And Black, bound as he is to the will of God, has no choice but to continue to do exactly what he feels God is calling him to do. In the end White is positive, committing a negative act, and Black is without personal choices but acting positively.

Worth the read? Sure, but only if you can accept a world that isn't grey.