The novel opens as Bigger Thomas, the hero, faces down and battles a gigantic rodent that has attacked the Thomas' one-room flat. We are right away attacked with the family's neediness and absence of alternatives.
Amid the day, as Bigger holds up to see a rich white man for a vocation as driver, he considers victimizing a white-possessed business with his mates. Every one of them are hesitant to loot a white man, however no one says as much. At long last, Bigger debilitates one of his companions to escape the theft.
That evening, he goes to the Daltons' home and lands the chauffeuring position. His underlying experience with Mary Dalton, the defiant little girl, makes him awkward and stressed that he'll lose his activity since she continues conversing with him about "associations." His first undertaking is to drive her to the college that night. Rather, she guides him to a building where she meets her sweetheart, a Communist named Jan Erlone. The two youngsters drive Bigger around, attempting to become a close acquaintence with him, at the end of the day influencing him to feel embarrassed and irate to be dark.…show more content… She makes advances on him when he is conveying her to her room. Alone in the live with her, he's stirred. However, right then and there, Mary's visually impaired mother, Mrs. Dalton, goes to the way to check whether her girl has made it home securely. Perplexed that she'll get him in the room alone with a white lady, Bigger spreads Mary's head with a pad to keep her noiseless and incidentally covers her to
