Native Son Summary

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In Native Son, by Richard Wright, the main character

is 20 year old Bigger Thomas. Growing up poor, uneducated,

and angry at the whole world, it is almost obvious that

Bigger is going to have a rough life. Anger, frustration,

and violence are habits for him. He is an experienced

criminal, and unable to handle with his wild mood swings,

Bigger often explodes in fits of crazy, aggressive outrage.

Bigger has grown up with the opinion that he simply has no

control over his life. In his mind, he can't ever be

anything more than an unskilled, low-wage laborer. He is

forced to take a job as a chauffeur for the Daltons to avoid

having to watch his own family starve.

Strangely, Mr. Dalton is Bigger's landlord; he owns

most of the company that manages the apartment building

where Bigger's family lives. Mr. Dalton and other wealthy

real estate men are robbing the poor, black tenants on the

South Side. What they do is refuse to rent apartments in

other neighborhoods to black tenants. By

causes high rents. Mr. Dalton likes to think of himself as a

to any other white man. Jan also realizes that he violated

Mary Dalton, the daughter of Bigger's Mr. Dalton,

Approximate Word count = 710
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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