Jazz | Characters
Readers of Morrison's fiction have come to expect vital and engaging portraits of characters who bear some psychological wound, often the result of experienced racism, in all her novels. While the characterizations of Jazz are less extreme than those in Beloved or Song of Solomon, she quite possibly surpasses these other novels in giving us a group of characters from ordinary life about whom we come to care, whose angst and frustration demand our empathy. The two principal characters, as the above sections have indicated, are complex, dynamic creations whose very...
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