Can we consider Dangling Man as a concept of freedom understood by James Baldwin?

In Saul Bellow's novel Dangling Man, the main character is "dangling" between civilian and military life, as he waits to be inducted into the army. One would think that the freedom of the civilian life is the ultimate state of freedom, whereas the military life is tightly controlled, monitored and regulated. However, the main character finds himself lost in the world. He has many choices in what paths to take and chooses to attain self-knowledge. However, he becomes disillusioned with the society around him and cannot seem to answer the question posed to him: How should a good man live? In the end, he concludes that entering the military life is freedom.
James Baldwin famously said that freedom is only appreciated when it is taken away from you. Baldwin also opined that we create our own restrictions and our own prison cells. An individual could be free—physically and legally—and yet find themselves bound by invisible chains of their own doing. In this sense, Saul Bellow's character found out that he has created his own prison by diving into marital affairs or becoming disillusioned by ideologies that kept him one-dimensional. Therefore, the military, to him, was a way out of the prison he had created in his civilian life.
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