"He had his hand on the doorknob, waiting, his muscles taut. He had to be careful with his answers now. And yet he knew he had a certain protection; he knew that a certain element of shame would keep Mrs. Dalton from asking him too much and letting him know that she was worried. He was a boy and she was an old woman. He was the hired and she was the hirer. And there was a certain distance to be kept between them" (p. 121). In this quote Bigger's ego is in control. He is thinking about reality and how is he going to act around people so they wont suspect of him. His id does not exist right now. He showed some of his superego by saying that there was a distance between him and Mrs. Dalton. In his community he learned that black people and white people were not the same that white people would always be higher than them and that they should not think of white people as equal as them.
"But of the whole business there was one angle that bothered him; he should have gotten more money out of it; he should have planned it. He had acted too hastily and accidentally. Next time things would be much different; he would plan and arrange so that he would have money enough to keep him a long time" (p. 123). In this quote Bigger shows his ego, id and superego. His ego is thinking about what he had done and how he had done it. But his id is also in control because he is thinking about doing something like what he did to Mary but this time he was going to think things alot better. Some how he's superego also comes out. He whatns more money because he has live for so long in poverty that he is tiered of it.
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