![]() ![]() ![]() Mary was not a targeted victim and the murder was not premeditated. While he is the one who held a pillow to Mary’s face, causing her to suffocate and die, it is important for the reader to question why Bigger murdered her. To understand this, the reader must decide for themselves whether or not Bigger is truly guilty. This novel is about race and justice and what years of racist oppression does to a person. ![]() For Bigger, this means killing a woman because he has no other choice, and actually feeling a moment of empowerment in that decision because it is the first decision made out of free will for the first time.On the surface, this is a novel about crime, and bringing a murderer to justice.Ībstractly, it is much more. And while the conflict of the story is not white versus blacks, it is oppressors verses the repressed, and what the psychological implications of that are. The narrator of the story even states that, “to Bigger and his kind, white people were not really people they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead or a deep swirling river stretching suddenly at one’s feet in the dark,” (110). ![]()
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