Please read: Character And Significance Of Mary Dalton In Native Son By Richard Wright...
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Now the problem of Bigger Thomas was simply of dissatisfaction
until he came into proximity with Mary Dalton which broaden his criminal
trait by turning him into a murderer.
The impact of Mary Dalton in the novel cannot be
overemphasized knowing that Native Son by Richard Wright is a story that
narrates relationship differences in terms of race, status, and
ideology; therefore the murder of Mary Dalton via suffocation made the
storyline more intense and interesting.
"I’ve been to England, France, and Mexico, but I don’t know
how people live ten blocks from me" said Mary in page 101. Her
statement was a prove of huge class differences in the novel.
In an environment where the white is superior to the black
and any complain of black violating the white is a very huge offense. In
such environment Bigger was made the chauffeur of Mary Dalton who at a
point got drunk. In an attempt to help her to her bed without anybody
knowing he touched her but Mrs. Dalton came into the scene and things
got ugly.
Mary Dalton, a white is Jan’s lover; they were both
communists who doesn’t believe in the division between the rich and the
poor. One can also consider Mary to be a fun lover; in spite of
restrictions, she pretended going to the university the night Bigger
drove her:
‘"I’m not going to the University", she said at last. "But you can forget that. I want you to drive me to the Loop. But if anyone should ask you, then I went to the University, see, Bigger?"’
Mary Dalton related with her father’s employee regardless of boundary and such indirectly led to her death and the resulting development of the protagonist’s character.
"Richard Wright was born near Natchez Mississippi, in 1908.
As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and
with various relatives. He left home at fifteen and returned to Memphis
for two years to work before headed to Chicago."
