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Bigger Thomas Analysis

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Bigger Thomas believes that although whites are to thank for affordable housing in Chicago, it segregates blacks from whites because of their income in order to avoid blacks at all cost.
Bigger Thomas is frustrated with the fact that he cannot leave his neighborhood society has created to segregate him. “Thomas remind us that how blacks are constantly fighting against their own blackness, whereas black is inside the white people”(Yasmin 74).
“Half the time I feel like I’m on the outside of the world peeping in through a knothole in the fence….”
Bigger is again frustrated because his neighborhood prohibits him from exploring what life has to offer. “They feel inferiority complex and blame whites for their own failure in lives”(Yasmin 74).
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