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Essay Archive - Song of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting and Listening to Women
Song of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting and Listening to Women
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
from his father's example and leaves town to obtain his inheritance and to
become a self-defined man. From Circe, a witch figure, he is inspired to be
reciprocal, and through his struggle for equality with men....
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