It's a typical morning in the one-room apartment where Bigger Thomas lives with his mother, younger brother, and sister in the central black section of Chicago. A foot-long rat has been terrifying the family, and Bigger traps and kills it. When he's done, his mother reminds him that he has a job interview that evening. She begs him to take the job. If he doesn't, the family will be dropped from public assistance.
Bigger goes to the pool hall to hang around with his buddies, Gus, Jack, and G. H. He suggests that the four rob Blum's Delicatessen. Though they have already committed several other petty robberies, Bigger's friends are afraid to steal from a white man. Bigger is scared too, but he won't admit it. So he backs out by picking a
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