Abstract: The condition for the transformation of space into place is that the person in that space has the rights to establish and protect this boundary. However, geographies of exclusion typical of American space ideology deprives Afro-American people of this possibility of transformation. Bigger, the native son born of this American ideology, is suffering a kind of virtual and metaphorical hole experience, which finds full expression in the cramp dwelling room and the micro-power network weaved by such value signs as the billboard with a white man, the helicopter hovering overhead and these fancy cars owned by the white. This hole experience brings about a deep-seated fear and horror in Bigger. For him, the only way to relieve himself of the misery is through violence.