Bigger is a black man who works as a driver for Dalton’s house. At here, he killed Mary Dalton, that was an accident, he did not plan to kill her. But he did not want people know that he killed a wealthy white woman, he knows no one will believe him, they will not believe a nigger. That’s why he put her body in the furnace and burned her to make sure that nobody know the crime he did.
After killed Mary, Bigger stolen her money and gave them to Bessie, his girlfriend, for alcohol. Bigger tells her about his plan, write the note asked for $10,000 because of Mary’s kidnapping. He confesses with her that he killed Mary and asked for her help for is plan. Bessie disagree with him, she doesn’t want to get in trouble, but Bigger said “...You got to help me. You in it as deep as me! You done spent some of the money…” (Wright 179)
When the reporters come to Dalton’s house to talk about Mary’s kidnap, Peggy asked Bigger to clean the ashes out because there’s not enough heat upstairs. He’s nervous, did Mary’s body burned yet? He tries to put coal instead of take out the ashes but fire still no working, it made smoke that make everybody coughs. At that time, a men come over and take the shovel from him, he open
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“And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.” (Wright 239). He doesn’t feel guilty or regret about what he did, he views his murder as a normal act, “He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing.” (Wright 239). Bigger is becoming evil day by day. At the beginning, all he did is just accident, but because of hiding that accident, he creates more crimes. Start to asked money from Dalton’s, escaped and then killed his girlfriend, who run and willing to start over with him. Finally, all he cares is money, nothing