"'Goddammit!' .... 'They don't let us do nothing.'
'You talk like you just finding that out now,' Gus said.
'Naw, But I just can't get used to it,' Bigger said. 'I swear to God I can't... Half the time I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping through a knothole in the fence.'" (19-20)
Bigger feels so completely oppressed by white people in general that he feels like he's not even part of the world. It's really sad that he puts every white person in this category, but it's not his fault that he thinks that way. After being made to live like a pig, so poor that all his mother could give him was a quarter and all he had on him was a penny, I don't blame him for putting the blame on the entire race, since it was all white people on top back then.
Where are they getting their food from? Bigger's mom said that if he didn't take the job, they would starve. Is it like welfare?
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