"All you ever caused me was trouble, just plain black trouble"(Wright 230).
Terror has overcome Bigger. Mary's bones have been discovered and now, the only person who knows his secret is questioning their relationship. If Bigger's life was not considered to have entirely fallen apart before, it certainly has now. Even Bessie sees him for what he really is, and all he really ever meant to her. But the most troubling part of her revelation is how she describes him as black trouble. Racism was so far ingrained in the 1930's society that Bessie even uses it against Bigger, as an instinct. Bessie uses the term as if they are one in the same, this speaks to the harsh reality that was 1930's Chicago, the terrible mindset that people were born having to overcome, the bias that existed even among the same race.
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