Native Son Post #10 Pg. 286

"But maybe it would never come; maybe there was no such thing for him; maybe he would have to go to his end just as he was, dumb, driven, with the shadow of emptiness in his eyes" (275).

The white people have made the blacks and Bigger view themselves as dumb, driven, and empty. The white people will never realize how tough the black people have it in society and the black people have to suffer in their place. Bigger has given up all hope in this quote. Bigger and his people are treated like dogs where ever they go and are considered guilty for wrongdoings no matter how innocent a black person is. The white people simply see a Negro chauffeur on a raping and murdering rampage. They have never thought to consider why Bigger is so quiet in his jail cell or why he does not touch his food. All of Bigger's actions are the cause of white people. The white people have put themselves in their trauma over rape and murder by treating black people lesser than dogs. Bigger Thomas was one of the few that would have the nerve enough to kill a white girl and disrespect a white family. Bigger is in a depression realizing there is nothing that can be done to break the racial segregation. He had a sense of pride murdering Mary and that feeling will never come again for him.

Will Bigger do something drastic to himself?