... the start of the novel's very first chapter, Morrison aims to show the destructive effect of white male-dominated society in the lives of her characters. Cynthia Davis notes that, "All of Morrison's characters exist in a world defined by its blackness and by the surrounding white society that both violates and denies it (Davis 217)." The tale of the Bottom highlights the history of white duplicity and mistreatment of blacks that caused the town on the side of the ... , upon noticing a surprising absence of pain, declares, "Wait"ll I tell Nel (149)." Death is not the end of life as it trad...

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