Native Son
What are those factors and how do they contribute?
Native Son suggests several things that contribute to ongoing racial tension.
Native Son suggests several things that contribute to ongoing racial tension.
I think there is an otherness or separateness to race. Blacks and whites are distanced from each other both physically and emotionally. At one point Bigger wants to role-play whites with his friends.
"Let’s play ‘white,’" Bigger said, referring to a game of play-acting in which he and his friends imitated the ways and manners of white folks.
The socio-economic disparity is so large between Black and white that there is little common ground. This leaves an almost forbidden fascination for some of the characters.