Native Son #4

"To Bigger and his kind white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead, or like a deep swirling river stretching suddenly at one's feet in the dark. As long as he and his black folks did not go beyond certain limits, there was no need to fear that white force" (Wright 114). Bigger did not see Mary as a person. As said here, he simply saw her as a part of the force that had an insane amount of power over himself and all other black people. Because of this, he did not feel the least bit guilty for killing her. Internally, he felt as though by killing Mary, he was freeing all black people from the white force and how they made them feel. Mary could not experience how this "force" felt because how she looked at it, she was trying to help Bigger. Even though this was true, the fact of how she approached him and simply expected him to forget all previous encounters he had with white people and change how he felt about them because he had met one that treated him equally, really ended up causing Bigger to hate her even more than he had those who were racist towards him.