"His confused emotions had made him feel instinctively that it would be better to fight Gus and spoil the plan of the robbery than to confront a white man with a gun" (42).
I can see right through Bigger. He's very much like most of the young men in our society today. Feeling like he has to put on this front to look "hard" in front of his boys. While his friends may not see what his objective was when he picked that fight with Gus, it was clear to me. In the end, it proves that being anything but yourself is harmful. Bigger was extremely scared and did not want to go through with the robbery. However, he could not just back out because then he would be perceived as a punk so he needed another way out. So he lashed out on the only person he knew [for a fact] he could defeat and get away with it. He knew it would not be the same with Blum.
Are the boys' relationship with Doc done?
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