control of some aspect of society. Through various channels Bigger eventually acts out on his hunger to feel life as he had never felt it before, the only way for him to do that was by engaging in anomic or normalessness situations.Bigger was presented with many opportunities for progress. As a servant for the Dalton's he was surely moving up the economic ladder, at least one that many other black men didn't have the chance to climb. Bigger was now working in one of the prominent houses in the city. This however was a failure to Bigger he felt that he was only good enough to work in the home of a white man, the man who in fact Bigger attributed to his failure. As a result Bigger starts to change and engages in more than one social adaptation while in the process of becoming a menace to society. Throughout Bigger's life he was forced in situations were he was left feeling powerless and cast out of society. He tries to conform when he worked for the Dalton's he wanted to move higher up on the social ladder and by him having a job he felt that this would help him better his chances. Bigger was trying to integrate into society and become a "civilized" individual, according to Merton he was conforming, or using the adaptation of conformity. Bigger thought that becoming the driver in the residence of the Dalton's would help him, he wanted a legitimate way to gain capital and to eventually become a part of the society in which he seen in movies and shows, the society which demonstrated the American Dream. However this was impossible for Bigger, after all living in an impoverished neighborhood he would never be introduced to the society in which he dreamed about. He was held back by a society that viewed his progress as a regression in the white world, therefore he would eternally be doomed to the socially disorganized ghetto, he and so many other like him. After Bigger tries to conform he eventually notices that he will be unable to...
