Because The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an example of a roman à clef, the reader can logically Infer that
A. the author may have had actual experiences with Issues of race or known someone similar to the narrator who had B. the author may have copled the story from a historical manuscript and should have provided source information C. the narrator cannot be trusted to be honest, and should be categorized as an unreliable narrator D. the narrator is actually Johnson, and it is a word-for-word autoblography that he wanted to keep secret