The Importance Of Violence In Native Son, By Richard Wright

In the realistic fiction Native Son written by Richard Wright, the reader follows a young African-American man in the 1930s, Bigger Thomas, who has gotten a job from a rich white man, Mr. Dalton, and proceeds to make bad decisions throughout the book including the murder of Mr. Dalton’s daughter and his girlfriend. The book opens up the truth about the restrictions that America has put upon minorities, especially African-Americans. In urban cities like New York City and Chicago, society sets the African-American communities in homes that are too small for most families and in areas that have little to no sanitization. The law in those neighborhoods often look away on any violence that are not black on white violence meaning most cases go unsolved and

Bigger does not truly achieve mental freedom due to Bessie becoming an accomplice, having Mary’s death as a recurring image, and Having Bessie as an accomplice does not allow Bigger to achieve mental freedom due to her becoming a liability and always having to check in on Bessie. Bessie is Bigger’s girlfriend who keeps pushing on Bigger about money so she can get more alcohol. Once Bigger came to her after he murdered Mary Dalton, she keeps pushing his buttons about why he acts weird and he asks her if she would run away with him, and although she says yes he starts to hesitate his decision. He began to think of the consequences that would come with Bessie: “he had not thought of Bessie’s being with him. A woman was a dangerous burden when a man was running away. He had read of how men had been caught because of women, and he did not want that to happen to him,” (Wright 142). If Bigger had really