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. ... He confides his innermost thoughts on his life to his friends when he remarks that "'half the time [he feels] like [he is] on the outside of the world, peeping in through a knothole in that fence" (23) to which his friends would not be able to understand and could not understand how others in their position would be able to change their life, so why even fuss about it. ... Richard Wright's a...

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