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Song Of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting And Listening To Women
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In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Milkman Dead becomes a man by
learning to respect and to listen to women. In the first part of the novel, he
emulates his father, by being deaf to women's wisdom and women's needs, and
casually disrespecting the women he should most respect. He chooses to stray
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....nalogous to his experience with his mother, and serves to "[stretch]
his carefree boyhood out for thrifty-one years" (98). Hagar calls him into a
room, unbuttons her blouse and smiles (92), just as his mother did (13).
Milkman's desire for his mother's milk disappears before she stops milking him,
and when Freddie discovers the situation and notes the inappropriateness, she is
left without this comfort. Similarly, Milkman ends the affair with Hagar when he
loses the desire for her and recognizes.... |
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