![]() ![]() Song of Solomon begins with the story of the suicide of Robert Smith, the town’s African-American life insurance agent. Morrison credits the success o f Song of Solomon with her selfidentification as a writer. Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. Through the process of learning about his history, Milkman matures, learns responsibility, transcends his own selfishness, and creates a meaningful existence for himself embedded in an embrace of his family history. Milkman, the primary character in Song of Solomon, is a self-absorbed, petulant, and rootless man who begins a self-interested quest for financial gain and ends up discovering the story of his family. The story requires the reader to participate in order to piece together the seemingly incompatible elements of the story to make a sensible and meaningful whole. Song of Solomon draws on diverse mythological traditions, particularly biblical, Greco-Roman, and African to create a uniquely African-American narrative. ![]() In fact, Song of Solomon is the first of Morrison’s novels to have a male as a primary protagonist. Unlike her first two novels, Song of Solomon centrally is the saga of a young man. Like Morrison’s first two novels, The Bluest Eye and Sula, Song of Solomon (1977) is a coming of age story. ![]() Analysis of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomonīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Janu ![]()
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