An Analysis Of Bigger's Things Fall Apart

Additionally, just as many critics argue that Bigger is more of a victim because he is black in a racist society. He is a victim of oppression. He is not completely a villain because he is not malicious. Bigger committed both murders out of fear for his life. He did not use his anger to commit these murders. Bigger reacted with violence out of fear, “The world was too much for him. It was then that he closed his eyes and struck out blindly, hitting what or whom he could, not looking or caring what or who hit back.” Bigger became afraid and attacked Gus so he did not have to do through with the robbery. He cut the pool table because he was afraid that the man was going to shoot him, but he used violence to mask his fear. He came up with the …show more content…
If Mary and Jan had done the right thing, then he would not have been in the position of being caught in the room. In fear of Mary revealing him in her room and fearing the death penalty, he accidentally smothered her. He already did not trust white people because of the hatred he experienced his whole life. “Every time I get to thinking about me black and they being white, me being here and they being there, I feel like something awful’s going to happen to me. . . .” When he brought his gun to work on the first day, this exemplifies how great his distrust for white people are. “There was in him an uneasiness and distrust that made him feel that he ought to have brung it along. He was going among white people, so he would take his knife and his gun; it would make him feel equal of them.” His lack of trust for white people make him strongly believe if he is caught in her room, he will automatically be charged with rape. “Bigger becomes a murderer in order not to enact the white myth of the black rapist while he stands out as the very victim of the white myth itself, the myth that triumphs over black reality. He has been the victim of his own fear of the white world, as much as of his self-consciousness as a black which Mary and Jan have overly sensitized him to.” (Demiturk, …show more content…
With limited space they had to get dress in front of each other and share beds. As a child he witnessed his parents having sexual relations because of the cramped space, “He had seen things like that when he was a little boy sleeping five in a room. Many mornings he had awaken and watched his father and mother.” He lived in harsh conditions in the rundown part of the city, “All real estate operators know that it is not so, they have agreed among themselves to keep Negroes within the ghetto areas of cities.” He is also a victim because he was taken advantage of by his lack of education, which gave him the only option of menial labors or robbing. Bigger stopped school at the eighth grade, “For every school teacher knows the restriction which have been placed upon Negro education.” Menial labors was not something Bigger wanted to do in life. His skin color limited him in this society, “I wanted to be an aviator once. But they wouldn’t let me