Names in Song of Soloman

The novel, Song of Solomon, seems preoccupied with the importance of providing the reader with names and with the ?how? of the giving of names. The first line of Chapter One gives the reader the name of the company that the first character discusses, Robert Smith, works for: The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance. Quickly following this is Robert Smith?s name as printed on a note he left on the door.

Equally important are nicknames or associations. ?Not Doctor Street? is introduced as the street that the townspeople originally named ?Doctor Street? because of the association of the only doctor available to them being on that street. However, when the government attempts to correct them with a reminder that the street is called ?Mains Avenue and not Doctor Street,? they quickly adapted t

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