Who can forget the fires blazing over local buildings during the Los Angeles Riots? Unfortunately the whole event does not seem as if it was too far off in the past. Although today we live in a nation, which has abolished slavery, the gap between the whites and the blacks during the early stages of America's development has plainly carried into the present. In Native Son, author Richard Wright illustrates this racial gap, in addition …showed first 75 words of 854 total…

…showed last 75 words of 854 total…between Bigger and Max. Consequently, from this study of Bigger's psyche, it is evident that the 'Bigger That Might Have Been' is basically: 'a decent man'; such a result to become of Bigger, however, may only occur if Bigger's father was present, his family was not so impoverished, or even if he had maintained his job working honestly for the Daltons. To produce the 'Bigger That Might Have Been,' slavery should never have occurred!