Gender Roles In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon

“Here, this here, is what a man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back in it. Stop sniveling”(p.235). Toni Morrison has the ability to profoundly write of the struggles as she sees them in society and her life but relate it so much to others who haven’t felt that emotion. Throughout Song of Solomon race and gender are prevalent in Toni telling her stories of black people the way she saw it. But she didn’t do it for those black people she didn’t it for the bigger picture. She wanted anyone no matter what color he or she were to understand the stories she was speaking of conflict and hardships. History shouldn’t be repeated but it should be learned from and she wants to bring that to life in her novels so it is more then a gender and race novel but a novel that has an appeal everyone can relate to. The quote from the …show more content…
In this time women are looked to be the typical “stay at home” moms that are suppose to clean and take care of the children. However putting a feminist lenses while reading this novel I see how certain characters were used for the purpose of giving women a voice in the novel. Milkman’s story was used as a story of the women around him he was used as a vehicle for these women and inevitably allows him to find himself. “He has more to learn than a women would have.” Toni Morrison has no means to say women should be the ultimate rulers and change the society from patriarchal to matriarchal society but to throw the idea out of a society of equitable access of equality, and open the door to new