S., first in Chicago and then in Harlem (Grinnell 145), but whatever commitment to the Party Wright may have felt in the early 1930s is hardened at the end of the decade by his depiction of the nightmare of Bigger Thomas' life (145)
His confusion and unease with Jan and Mary's benevolence quickly turns to feelings of anger and intense loathing for them. Marx's theory of alienation, which is a result of capitalism, is when people are alienated from aspects of their human nature (Marx 11)
"Bigger is occasionally cunning, but there is little that is subtle about his intelligence or refined about his emotions. Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible" (Rampersad xi)
It is clear from reading the first few chapters of Richard Wright's Native Son that Bigger is a part of this lower class Marx spoke of. Early on in the book Bigger states, "They get a chance to do everything…it's funny how the white folks treat us, ain't it?" (Wright 16-17)
On this point, Gatsby observes that Daisy's voice was 'full of money,' and Nick's characterization of this condition is important: "I'd never understood before. It was full of money -- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals song of it" (Fitzgerald, 120) Here, the romanticizing of this quality speaks directly to what Marx would call the skewed values of the society in Gatsby