A Critical Review of Native Son

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is representative of the way real estate agents of the time would refuse to rent to blacks in other neighborhoods than a confined area, housing shortages would arise, allowing landlords to charge high prices. Blacks had little or no opportunity for advancement or education in this time, they simply lived day to day with no understood purpose.
Also included the Native Son is the ideals of Communism and labor unions, which were considered burden to business men attempting to make their fortune. Wright portrayed the negative response they received, as they were as looked down upon as African Americans. We can see how segregated and prejudice the city of Chicago in this time was through Wright’s writing.
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Bigger Thomas - Is the anti-hero of the novel. As the main character, we follow him through his daily life and the realizations of what he has done. Bigger has lived along the “Black belt” of Chicago his whole life, an area of subsidized housing with little or no advancement for African Americans. Bigger has been oppressed by white s...