In the first part of the book I had mixed feelings about Bigger because I understood how hard life was for him, but as the same time I didn`t really like him because of the way he treated his family, like when he caught the rat and swung it in Vera`s face. I did have sympathy for him though because he knew he was black, and because of that, his future was not very bright in terms of job opportunites, and having to stay living in the same conditions he was now, and I felt bad that he was going through this harsh reality at a young age. His life was just in a cycle of bad events, from robbing stores, drinking and smoking, not going in any direction.

After reading Book 2, I have no more sympathy for Bigger, after Mary`s body had been taken care of, Bigger began making plans in his mind of how to put all the blame onto Jan, and make it seem as if Mary had been kidnapped so he could make a ransom note demanding money from the Daltons for Marys safe return. He also brings Bessie into this mess and once she knows the truth about Mary, Bigger kills her by smashing her face in with a brick and throwing her down an air shaft, Bigger does this because he knows he cant bring her along to run away from cops, but he can`t leave her behind because she is completely emtionally unstable and would tell the police everything that Bigger had done. After Bigger kills Bessie, he feels empowered by all of it, he killed a rich white girl and now he had killed Bessie, he feels like he is above the law and no one can stop him.