Chapter 6

Chapter: Accidental Purpose
Pages 80-92

This chapter starts off with Bigger dropping Jan off.
Jan takes out some pamphlets relating to Communism and
hands it over to Bigger so he can read them. Bigger
then drives Mary to her house. Throughout the ride
Mary was really drunk and blurted out random comments.
Bigger felt really unomfortable, because he felt as
though she was looking inside of him. He hated her for
that. When they got to her house she couldn't get out
the car, because she was so drunk. Bigger her helped
her out and then let her loose. She was stumbling
allover the place so he decided to help her up to her
room. As he got Mary to her room he laid her down on
her bed and felt the urge to kiss her so he did. While
he was doing this Mary's mother walked in the room.
Luckily, she was blind and didn't catch him. Bigger
didn't know what to do, he wanted to leave the room ,
but he was scared Mrs. Dalton would hear him. Mary
started fumbling around so he placed his hand over
Mary's mouth so she wouldn't make any noise. Mrs.
Dalton knew that Mary was drunk , because she smelt
whisky on her. Mrs. Dalton kneeled on the the side of
Mary's bed and prayed for he. Mrs. Dalton then left
the room with the impression that Mary was sleeping.
Bigger removed his hand from Mary's mouth and found
that he killed her. Bigger felt the whole room sink on
him and saw the reality, he killed her. Bigger's first
move was to get rid of her so he stuffed her in a
trunk. After he stuffed her in the trunk, he came up
with an idea which was to burn Mary's body in the
furnace. He took the trunk to the basement where the
furnace was and took her body out. He then saw that
her whole body could not fit into the furnace so he
had no other choice, but to cut her head off.
In this
When Bigger first lays Mary down on her bed he felt
excited. He didn't kiss Mary, because of her beauty,
which has always been there, but for the fact that she
can never be his. Her being white and him being black
separates them from one another. The arrival of Mrs.
Dalton in Mary's room frightened Bigger, because of
his skin color. Him being black traps him in a bad
situation. After he discovers that he killed Mary the
situation escalates. Once again his color traps him in
a bad situation, but this time in a murder. Bigger
killing Mary probably opened up a side of him that he
knew was there, but would never actually come out.