This money was taken from the purse of Jan Erlone's girlfriend, whom he accidentally killed when trying not to be caught in Mary Dalton's bedroom, all of which could have been avoided had he swept out the furnace.
At the opening of this work, the protagonist smashes a rat with a skillet and scares Vera by holding it in front of her. This novel's protagonist, who reconsiders a plan to rob Mr. Blum's deli while watching Trader Horn in a theater, eventually attempts to escape the city during a snowstorm, and he is left penniless, having thrown the body of his dead girlfriend, Bessie, down a shaft with all of the money in her pocket. This money was taken from the purse of Jan Erlone's girlfriend, whom he accidentally killed when trying not to be caught in Mary Dalton's bedroom, all of which could have been avoided had he swept out the furnace. "Bigger" Thomas is eventually given the death penalty in, FTP, which novel by Richard Wright?
At the opening of this work, the protagonist smashes a rat with a skillet and scares Vera by holding it in front of her.
Native Son