In the spring, Joe mourns Dorcas’s death and he and Violet patch things up in their relationship. Several weeks later, she begins to visit Dorcas’s mourning aunt, Alice Manfred, and the two women begin to develop a friendship as a result of their shared tragedy. Violet appears at Dorcas’ open-casket funeral and cut the Dorcas’s face with a knife. Everyone knows that Joe shot Dorcas and rumor of their affair begins to spread in the community after the young girl’s death. Dorcas tells the people not to call an ambulance, even though she would survive if she allowed someone to help her, and she bleeds to death. Joe, however, brings a gun and shoots Dorcas in the shoulder. Dorcas prefers the attentions of a popular and good-looking young man named Acton, with whom she dances at a party on New Year’s Day.ĭorcas knows that Joe has not got over her and will come looking for her, so she is not surprised when he tracks her down at the party and sees her dancing with Acton. When Joe finally confronts Dorcas about this, she cruelly tells him that he makes her sick and that he should not bother her any more.
This arrangement continues for several months and neither Violet nor Alice Manfred, Dorcas’s aunt, have any knowledge of the affair.Īlthough Joe brings Dorcas presents every time they meet, eventually Dorcas begins to get tired of the older man and starts going out with younger boys, attending parties with her best friend Felice, and making up excuses so as not to meet with Joe. Joe talks with Malvonne, an upstairs neighbour, and discusses the use of her empty apartment so that he and Dorcas can meet there. Joe and Dorcas meet when Joe comes to Dorcas’s aunt’s house to sell ladies cosmetics. Violet and Joe are unhappily married and living together in an apartment in Harlem when Joe falls in love with a seventeen-year old girl named Dorcas. As the novel goes we discover the love triangle between Violet, Joe and Dorcas.
The novel blooms in the black Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem, the year is 1926 and on an ice-cold winter morning, a woman named Violet Trace has thrown open her windows and emptied her birdcages of their flocks, including her favourite, lonely bird that always said “I love you.” Violet is a fifty-year-old black woman, she is skinny and emotionally unstable. The novel was first published in 1992, a year before Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because what Morrison does in Jazz is to give a sense of both the scandal of jazz music and its historical context. It is experimental in that it challenges the conventions of the American canonical literary narrative. Jazz is heavily focused on the history of blacks in the United States.
Hey are you thinking of Jazz music? If such you are about to get something more extra melody and mellow than that in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.
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