Why Does Bigger Feel About Murder Mary?

1. How does Bigger feel about murdering Mary? Provide quotes and Explain.
- Ever since Bigger woke up, he pictured images of Mary in his mind. He was constantly in fear, and made sure he didn’t leave any evidence against him. Before his family woke up, he realized that he still had Mary’s purse, and there was dried blood on his knife. Immediately, he threw away the evidence into a trash bin and made sure know one saw him. Although he was nervous, he was making decisions quick and carefully. After Bigger had murdered Mary, he felt a confidence he had never felt before. Bigger did what seems impossible in everyone else’s eyes. Even though Mary’s death was an accident, Bigger told himself that it wasn’t an accident; “Though he had killed by accident,
He was black and he had been alone in a room where a white girl had been killed; therefore he killed her. That was what everybody would say, no matter what he said.”(Wright, 106) Bigger stated; “His life seemed natural; he felt that all of his life had been leading to something like this.”(Wright, 106) He felt a “terrified pride”(Wright, 106) from his actions. In Bigger’s eyes, he could whatever he wanted as long as he acted how other people expect him to act; “They might think he would steal a dime, rape a woman, get drunk, or cut somebody, but to kill a millionaire’s daughter and burn her body? He smiled a little, feeling a tingling sensation enveloping all his body. He saw it all very sharply and simply: act like other people thought you ought to act, yet do what you wanted.”(Wright, 113) Therefore, murdering Mary