Native Son and Bigger

I think Bigger is exactly what Max says he is, the product of not only a few decades of oppression but a few hundred years of oppression. Bigger is actually a bright young man, as he showed us when trying to cover up his accidental murder of Mary. He is no genius but he certainly is not an idiot like most of the white race thought of him at the time. Bigger is constantly oppressed from the time he was born to his eventual death. He sees the white race rather than individual people that each hate him but as a whole oppressive white blob that makes Bigger feel self conscious of his skin color. This constant feeling of hate and insecurity (for something he has no control over) makes Bigger seem like a failing dumb ape. The shame he constantly feels slowly eats away at Bigger until he kills, even though Mary's death was an accident. I feel that any other person in Bigger's situation would do just as Bigger has done.