Richard Wright's implementation of setting within Bigger's existence plays an instrumentive role in portraying how society shapes one's personality in his novel Native Son. ... Although "he [hates] his family, [it is] because he knows that they are suffering and that he is powerless to help them," (13) his pride in his own self worth, is never more present then when he is around his family. ... Bigger does exactly what he was against, he obediently molded into the injustices of a prejudice society, sacrificing the value of individuality and self-pride to conform to an accept...

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