Bigger's Blindness

just simply hates Mary because of it. He says, “White folks and black folks is strangers. We don’t know what each other is thinking. Maybe she was trying to be kind; but she didn’t act like it. To me she looked and acted like all other white folks…” (Wright 351). Mary tries to be sympathetic towards Bigger, unaware that he has his own emotions and thoughts, and that she and Bigger were so far away from each other in society, and that there was no way she could ever properly understand.
The white environment that Bigger is in is inescapable and so actively present it is impossible to ignore. From the beginning of the novel blackness and whiteness, can begin to be seen as interdependent and naturally reinforcing (Van Hoose 46-47). To Bigger he did not think that white people were actually people, and this is also a part of his blindness to it all. He also knows so little about the white community because he has had only very little involvement actually with the white community in general.
Bigger feels accomplished with all the crimes and murders he …show more content…
Unknowingly when people are blind they are for a reason, whether it is to prevent them from seeing things they’d rather not see or to gain things that they want, there is a reason for certain blindness. Authors like Richard Wright strongly emphasize what it means to be blind and how being blind can lead to tragedies and fights with not only those around us, but within ourselves also. Everyone who has grown up with different ideas of what is right and what is wrong, or who has been taught how to act this way rather than that way holds a little bit of blindness in them. Each individual fears change if it is at the expanse of the ones they love and mostly themselves. What needs to be learned is that in the end, being blind will not cause life to get easier and will only lead society into its own personal path of death, downfall, and