What Is The Cause Of Bessie's Suicide

He worked with Paul Green between 1940 and 1941 to create a stage adaptation of the novel. Paul Green later wrote another adaptation for the stage with the guidance of Richard Wright right beside him. He down plays Bigger and even lets him off of the hook for the murder of Bessie. Even though it may have been too graphic for Bigger to have raped and killed Bessie in the stage adaptation, it would have helped if, like in the novel, Bigger served as the main contributor in her death instead if him having virtually nothing to do with it at all; she somewhat commits suicide by jumping in front of bullets meant for Bigger. By editing the novel Bigger is placed between the role of being a victim or victimizer (Ward 41). He is only given half of the responsibility of Mary’s death because she seduces him giving him reason to believe that it would be okay to enter her bedroom. Also the entire responsibility of Bessie’s death is completely erased.
His layers become limited and he loses some of the mental effect he has on his audience. This in turn makes him appear to merely be a surface character that has no inner story and is simply angry at the world for reasons unknown to everyone. In actuality the death of Bigger’s father at such a young age is one of the reasons that as to why he behaves the way he does. In the beginning of the play Green created character named Mrs. Emmet, the white social worker, who appears only once right after they catch the rat roaming their house. She was strategically placed to show how their dysfunctional life is constantly being watched and interrupted not only by people but also by animals. The word emmet is actually a southern dialect word for ant (Ward