PositiveThe IndependentPoor black women are simply bodies to be used for their masters\' ends, and the echoes of Beloved and A Mercy here are both deliberate and deafening. Like the best writers, Morrison has politics underpinning her prose. Class permeates her symbolism; the injustice of poverty, made worse by race and gender, weighs down her characters. And yet they never lose their humanity. Only Morrison can take the human soul down into its darkest parts, yet somehow let it flourish.
