Text: Song of Solomon
Lens: Psychoanalytical
“He didn’t mean it. It happened before he was through. She’d stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, he’d turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habit—this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had."
This quote is showing the anxiety and nervousness Milkman has and the alienation. This sudden jerk shows how he feels a bit out of place in his society and how he always feels like he needs to watch his back. Unlike many children who usually come at the world with open arms, he is very closed off, which could be passed down from his father. He acts as if he is being hunted (which is actually foreshadowing a future event) where most children just act with a false sense of security. This is odd for a child his age, because children are not supposed to feel that type of stress and are not supposed to be scared to go out into the open world and discover something. On another note this is actually showing how he truly feels about his sisters, mom, and women in the book. His conscious could have done that on purpose and shows that he does not really care about the other women, which was not uncommon during that time period. This is showing his ego, because he is at an age where he has not yet fully developed compassion and sympathy where he is very self centered and feels as if that his problems are way greater than anyone elses.
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