outside of his building. One fact that amply demonstrates the absurdity of white racist America is that fact that, when Native Son was successfully published, a Hollywood producer “wanted to change Bigger Thomas to a white man; but Wright refused. Wright himself played Bigger in a motion-picture version of Native Son made in Argentina in 1951” (Biography 4). Like many black writers of his era, Wright became an ex-patriot in response to his frustration with America’s racist political and social institutions.
There is no redemption possible for Bigger because despite any capacity he has for success, he is never given a chance to fulfill it in a racist society. He is a tree that cannot gr
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