Native Sun: Society's Responsibility In the novel, Native Son, author Richard Wright presents a compelling case that society is responsible for creating Bigger Thomas and people like Bigger. Bigger is a tragic figure, as he represents the African American experience of oppression in America. Wright states in the introduction, however, that there are Biggers among every oppressed people throughout the world. He argues that many of the rapidly changing and uncertain conditions of the modern world have created people like Bigger, searching for a place for themselves in a world that, for them, has lost many of i