In the beginning of book one, I had mixed feelings about Bigger. I hated the way that he would treat his family members and friends. He acted like he had no feelings for anyone and didn’t care if he hurt someone. I did have a little bit of sympathy when it comes to dealing with his race and the restrictions in life he had. He and his friends would talk about the inequality and how blacks aren’t able to do much with their life compared to white people. By the end of book one I did not like Bigger at all. When he killed Mary, I had a little sympathy for him because his goal wasn’t to kill her. The part at book one that made me hate Bigger was the way that he dealt with Mary’s dead body. I was so disgusted and thought that it was so wrong to throw her in the furnace and cut her head off with a hatchet.
After reading most of book two, I lost all respect for Bigger. The way that he is treating Bessie, as his girlfriend, shows how little he cares about Bessie and just wants to get a lot of money and run out of town. Bessie always tells Bigger how much she doesn’t want to follow through with his plan, usually while in tears. Bigger doesn’t have any feeling towards other people. He is extremely self centered and pulls people into bad situations.