"He was going among white people , so he would take his knife and his gun; it would make feel that he was the equal of them, give him a sense of completeness" (43).
Bigger is someone who does not really know who he is. He has to take time to figure out who he is. He also has to stop suppressing his feels and just try to deal with them. Bigger knows a part of him is missing and tries to fill it up with nonsense. One thing Biggers tries to do a lot is assert his authority. He feel like he always has to prove something to his peers and he thinks that is how is going to get him respect. In this passage he thinks that a gun and a knife will make him more equal to the whites and not realizing that it is just tainting his image. One thing Bigger seems to struggle is with his internal feeling. The one way he deal with them is through anger and violence.
When I read this book I wonder if their is a good person under the mask Bigger puts fourth or he is just a cold and unaccompanied person?
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