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I started to add the following:

Bigger befriends a white communist woman and returns to her house with her; her mother is blind and enters her daughter's bedroom while Bigger is there. Bigger, terrified,

Then the questions I don't remember the answers to: was she drunk? was he drunk? why did he put the pillow over her face? Has anyone read this more recently than 8 years ago? Koyaanis Qatsi 05:04 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)

Working from a plot outline. Mary Dalton and her lover, Jan, befriend Bigger (not the other way round) took Bigger to the Communist meeting. Bigger did not want to be friends with them, but it was his job. They all drank. She was too drunk to take herself to bed. Bigger helped her to her bedroom. When her mother entered, Bigger covered Mary's face with a pilow to keep her quiet because he feared the mother's suspicions. Mother smelled booze, decided daughter was drunk, left. Bigger finds he has smothered her. Plot ensues. Want more? Ortolan88

No, that's plenty, thanks. I just couldn't remember the circumstances that led to the smothering. Koyaanis Qatsi

[edit] Max

is it significant the character Max, Bigger's defense lawyer and a member of the communist party, closely resembles Marx, the author of The Communist Manifesto? perhaps I am simply yearning to find an irrelavant connection between the two.