native son p.34-62

Bigger is selling out. He now can earn money to buy material things that he wants. "A dollar watch was not good enough for a job like this; he would buy a gold one..this would be an easy life." Bigger is taking the easy way out and with his new job he also has a place to stay. Now bigger has hope for a better life and has a chance for education because Miss Dalton gave education to the last black man who worked for her. Bigger is taking this opportunity for his own benefits. His living conditions will be better and now his mother gets sent twenty dollars and he gets five dollars for himself. White people still make him uncomfortable "he had not expected anything like this; he had not thought that this world would be so utterly different from his own that it would intimidate him." Bigger is still not comfortable with being around white people and he still feels like he has to measure up to their standards. "But when he was alone he would burn up the pavement; he would make those tires smoke," Bigger will take the chauffeuring job but he still will do what he wants and he doesn't take the job too seriously.