Love By Toni Morrison Analysis

Toni Morrison 's novel, Love provides insight from the characters and the costumers that surround the death of the late Bill Cosey throughout his life. They are all affected by this charismatic hotel owner who caters only to African Americans. Morrison 's non- linear style goes back and forth dividing the plots among different time periods throughout this story. Inside the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, history and cultural heritage of African Americans are analyzed from the “characters displaced from home, orphaned, and abandoned, and even Cosey himself, like others remains scarred by American culture” (Schreiber) while coating all actions of love, hate, power, and sex. The characters past from their youth years reflects damaging choices they made throughout their life from the culture that surrounds them. Morrison expresses Cosey 's success of owning a business within a system …show more content…
This is how Cosey became to have this establishment. The man swore he would not get into business with an African American and is proud to break his vow. For example, Patricia McKee describes how “Morrison 's black American cultures struggle to claim the spaces of their existence, their culture, and their history that whites have seen as empty.”(Schreiber) African Americans owning a business on the same playing field as whites is a difficult situation for whites to accept and understand because the way they see blacks as unimportant. Unimportant as in not worth knowing and incapable of civilization. This just shows the struggles that blacks go through to become something. “One of Toni Morrison 's greatest achievements is her ability to depict what it means to be black in American society. In a culture where whiteness is the norm, black identity is marginalized, and the nuances of this marginalization suggest a range of trauma associated with black experience.”(Schreiber) African