The story, Native Son, is about a black male, Bigger Thomas, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the 1930’s. Bigger Thomas lived in a cramped ghetto of South Chicago with his family. The apartment Bigger shared with his family, his mother and brother and sister, was just one room that contained a bed, a small stove, and a curtain to divide the room. The conditions were appalling. Besides being small, the room was also infested with rats and roaches. Bigger’s apartment was one of many that African-American were confined to in South Chicago. North Chicago, where the whites lived, was new and well kept. There were nice suburbs, clean and adequate apartments and respectable businesses opposite of South Chicago where the African-Americans were forced