ological pressure. These characters lives are shaped by forces of society that are uncontrollable. Characters of literary naturalism conduct themselves with strength in the face of adversity and are often the pawn of multiple compulsions.
             Bigger is the perfect example of a naturalistic character. Bigger perceives the narrow boundaries of his life were determined before his birth. A long-standing unequal division of power between white and black, rich and poor has trapped him within a disadvantaged race and a disadvantaged class. He feels watched and controlled even when white people are not present, as if white people invade his very insides. Bigger feels like a man condemned to a degraded existence and certain doom.
             Bigger and his family live in cramped and squalid conditions. These conditions cause Bigger and his family to endure socially enforced poverty and little opportunity for education. The suffering his family endures while living in such terrible conditions constantly reminds Bigger how powerless he is to help them. The knowledge of his family's situation is more than he can bear, so he attempts to keep a cold and reserved attitude toward his family and himself. Bigger's need to hide behind such a wall of toughness is one of the many ways in which the reader see him trapped by his circumstances. He is cau
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