In the beginning of “In The Heat of the Night”, Bill Gillespie was an extremely racist and arrogant, but when the book came to an end, Gillespie began to realize that everyone was equal, and his racist and harsh remarks were erroneous. He shook Virgil Tibbs’ hand, which made him quite courageous, knowing that he wouldn’t ever do such a thing to a person of color in the beginning. He made it quite obvious that he cared about his pride since he whenever he would put Sam Wood down and he would discipline the cops so that they would look up to him and make sure that they knew who was the boss. Although all that may be true, in the end, Bill Gillespie sees what Sam Wood was capable of doing and recognizes his accomplishment, thus realizing that
