Through a puzzle of language and unique writing style, Toni Morrison’s Jazz has become not only a novel, but a work of art. Its musical quality emphasizes the rhythm of jazz music, significantly expressing its storytelling nature, hinting details, and jumping to different topics, and adequately tying everything together in the end. Jazz tells many stories. Often it is via suffering and pain, but it also relays messages of love. In light of Morrison’s indirect relation to jazz, her novel thoroughly addresses the types of love to serve as a major aspect in the plot and brilliance of her writing. Of the many ideas she conveys in Jazz, the main concepts of love throughout the story include the love and relationships between a man and a woman,
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Dorcas was one of the few sane people he knew, allowing him to love her differently. His feelings for her are robust and purer than his love for Violet. With Violet, he fell out of a tree and fell in love. With Dorcas, he singled her out after meeting her in a candy store. He confesses, “Dorcas, girl, your first time and mine. I chose you. Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that’s the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it” (135).
Joe had a lot of options, but he found Dorcas relatable. Her parents died in a fire when she was young. Therefore, she was unable to grow up with her parents. Joe understands her pain because his mother, Wild, abandoned him when he was very little. Since he never knew his mother, he always has felt an emptiness and that he is not living as his truthful self. He was depressed since he never had a real identity and Dorcas filled the void inside of him. He finally felt like himself. When Dorcas became more intrigued by Acton, Joe shot her to preserve their love. If their love diminished, it would threaten to become like the dying and lost love in his
Dorcas was one of the few sane people he knew, allowing him to love her differently. His feelings for her are robust and purer than his love for Violet. With Violet, he fell out of a tree and fell in love. With Dorcas, he singled her out after meeting her in a candy store. He confesses, “Dorcas, girl, your first time and mine. I chose you. Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that’s the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it” (135).
Joe had a lot of options, but he found Dorcas relatable. Her parents died in a fire when she was young. Therefore, she was unable to grow up with her parents. Joe understands her pain because his mother, Wild, abandoned him when he was very little. Since he never knew his mother, he always has felt an emptiness and that he is not living as his truthful self. He was depressed since he never had a real identity and Dorcas filled the void inside of him. He finally felt like himself. When Dorcas became more intrigued by Acton, Joe shot her to preserve their love. If their love diminished, it would threaten to become like the dying and lost love in his