Text: Song of Solomon
Lens: Psychoanalytical
"A deep reverence for black females and black female network pervades Morrison's novel. She avoids romanticizing or idealizing women's hard circumstances, but every woman, except possibly Hagar, has small moments of triumph. And Morrison loves them and their moments of feistiness and overcoming odds. Granny who looked 'as though she might move the earth if she wanted to' ultimately bests the white nurse. Certainly Granny had to show deference to the white authority figure but she emerges as more aware: she knows what's going on she knows the people."
Since during this time women were not really idolized, they did not have that large of a part in the novel. This is because the novel was focusing on Milkman's problems where in the real days back then the women's problems would be put off to the side or just forgotten about. This type of mindset the author is showing in Milkman is a very self centered one, because he is meant to still be somewhat young and naive. Also since this is his ego and it is showing his hidden desires, the women were not a really large part in that since his main desire at that time was not women. Also there is a lot of emotional conflict going on between the sisters, which Milkman does not like to be a part of so he avoids it.
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