I believe she is talking about independence and self will because she says that we shouldn’t depend on anyone else. She’s saying that we have to tame the “disappointment” if we want to be happy and to expect nothing from other. Also, we should stay away from false hope.
3) The author of eleven novels, the most famous being Beloved in 1987, along with countless other works in both fiction and nonfiction, Toni Morrison has received virtually every prize achievable for a writer, including, in 1993, the Nobel Prize for Literature. This excerpt is the prologue to her very first novel, The Bluest Eye, written in 1970. Observe her choice of a banal storybook text, its mutation, and then the stark summary of the events that will unfold in the novel. Discuss how you think this juxtaposition sets up the reader for what