While Bigger is 20 in the novel he is about 25 in this version. Bigger had found two white people capable of kindness to him all the others put him to death. When Max tearfully says goodbye to Bigger for the last time, Bigger asks him to "say hello to Mr. Max, the lawyer, fails to overcome the racism of the judge and jury and Bigger is sentenced to death. He is defended by a leftist lawyer with support from Jan, who worked with Mary toward racial equality. He flees the building, but the police give chase, turning a hose on him and forcing his surrender.
He joins his girlfriend Bessie, a nightclub singer, in an abandoned building, but when she goes to a drug store for liquor and a sweater for him, Bigger thinks she has conspired with stool pigeon Snippy to put the police onto him, and he murders her, throwing her body into an elevator shaft. Bigger moves the body and puts her in the basement furnace, trying to cover up what happened.Ī group of reporters, relegated to the furnace room of the house, notice fragments of bone and an earring in the ashes, prompting Bigger to flee in terror. Dalton merely thinks that Mary has passed out from being drunk and leaves the room. Mary cannot breathe, and he accidentally smothers her to death. Bigger panics and covers her mouth with a pillow. Dalton, who is blind, suddenly opens Mary's door.
Mary makes advances to Bigger so he kisses her. Bigger takes Mary home and carries her to bed.
Mary gets so drunk with her boyfriend, Jan, that she passes out. Their attempts to befriend Bigger are baffling to him because no white person has ever been kind to him and reflect how oblivious they are to the reactions of the black man. That evening, he drives their teenage daughter Mary into town to meet left-wing sympathizers. ( February 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī young black man, Bigger Thomas, is hired as a chauffeur for a progressive, affluent white family living in Chicago in the early 1940s.
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