Bigger kills the rat with a skillet and dangles it in front of his sister before throwing it out. As they dress, turning their heads to give each other privacy, a large black rat scurries across the floor. Thomas and her three children, Bigger, Buddy, and Vera. The alarm awakens a black woman named Mrs. The novel starts with an alarm clock ringing in a one-room apartment on Chicago's South Side. The story expounds on the racism of 1930's America and the impact of stereotyping on the mind of a young black man. Despite the help of an excellent lawyer, Bigger is sentenced to execution for murdering Mary and his former girlfriend days later. The police soon capture him and he is taken to jail to face sentencing by a jury. Her remains are found in the furnace and Bigger flees in fear of being accused of her murder. Soon, the family discovers that Mary is missing and begins to search for her. In a flurry, Bigger hides the young woman's body by disposing of it in the family's furnace. In the process he inadvertently smothers her. While he is attempting to do so, he almost get's caught by the young woman's mother and panics, putting a pillow over Mary's face to keep her silent. After a night out, Mary becomes increasingly drunk and the job of getting her back to her bed falls to Bigger. Bigger picks up the man's daughter, Mary and takes her to meet with her boyfriend, a member of the Communist party named Jan. He is the leader of a gang of 3 other young men his age and often involves himself in criminal activities.īigger is soon contracted by the millionaire owner of his tenement building to work as his driver.
The young man, Bigger Thomas, experiences hatred and distrust of white people because of the systematic racism that he has been subjected to for his whole life.
The play is the story of a young, black man living in poverty with his family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930's.
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