Native Son Post #3 Pg. 77

"He knew that they would not have cared if he had made himself more comfortable, but his moving would have called attention to himself and his black body" (68).

Jan and Mary want to make Bigger feel comfortable and show him he is just as equal as they are. Jan and Mary want to put an end to the segregation between whites and blacks. Because the whites have made black people feel so inferior, Bigger is embarrassed by his skin color. He can not walk into a room full of white people or laugh at a joke Mary tells him without feeling out of place because he is black. Although Mary and Jan both want to fix society's segregation and show Bigger everybody is equal, they still use Bigger as their driver. It is almost the same as Mr. Dalton being nice to Bigger partly because the rent Bigger pays goes to Mr. Dalton's real estate company. Even though majority of the white people feel much more superior to the Black people and do not want to be seen with or around them, Black people feel the same way. Bigger did not want to be seen at Ernie's Kitchen Shack with two white people. He felt embarrassed being with them. Bigger became so self-conscious and afraid of what the other people at the restaurant thought. I think that is Bigger's down fall. He is too busy worrying about what others think that, at times, he forgets what he is supposed to be doing. He analyzes things that should be left unanalyzed.

Will Mary get Bigger into trouble?