uld have to become someone with no limits, almost godlike. The only way for him to enact this image was to have control over his life and the life of others, and that's what induced him into a life of crime and murder. He was inevitably going to become a criminal, he was young, poor, and felt trapped in a society that was not concerned with his best interests. A man with nothing to lose or so it seemed, was ready to go out into the streets of Chicago and claim the lives of those who interfered with his existence as a decent human being. Crimes of hate, crimes of passion, crimes of economic gain, crimes of retribution, crimes of reciprocity, or just crimes of notoriety, were the positions that Bigger Thomas were left to define. He sought to fulfill the dreamlike fantasy of being on top of the economic ladder, and overcoming the status that his fate had entailed.The American dream, crazily sought after, rarely achieved, is what some theorist may say. People of the lower class or should I say of all socioeconomic classes have this preconceived notion that the American Dream is attainable if you just work hard and believe in the system. However, the strain and anomie theories prove otherwise. People of all different background share this eager desire to obtain the status of the economically elite, but for some it is considered impossible. In the societal class system it is hard for those in the lower classes to actually seek out and reach their goal, or attain the little piece of the American dream. The dream that is instilled in the ideologies of the vast majority of Americans, he ideology that keeps adults and children alike, to keep pushing and striving to get more and more. The strain theory recognizes the position we are in and explains why some people aren't capable of reaching that golden American dream. The dreams are jammed in the heads of so many Americans, but they lack the means of attaining them successfully or legall...
