Bigger is an alienated character because he is isolated from the rest of his family and friends. He has different …show more content…
After it began to ring, the mom told Bigger to turn it off. Bigger does not sleep in the same bed as her mom, but by telling him to turn it off it makes sense that they however sleep in the same room. Not only that but it shows the conditions the family is forced to wake up to, in this case a rat. The rat shows the poor living condition the black family live in. It shows how blacks had to live in small houses where rodents such as the big rat was common. Not only this but the way Bigger treats the rat is comparable to how whites treated blacks during this time period. In the society where whites were dominant, the blacks were the