Misnaming Motifs in Song of Solomon by: Toni Morrison Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is a brilliantly written novel that accurately depicts racial and social tensions between blacks and whites. Morrison chooses the setting of Shalimar, Virginia and Danville, Pennsylvania, during the late 1930’s through the 1960’s, where she covey’s her story through the third person as an omniscient author. In order to emphasize the racial conflicts throughout Song of Solomon, Morrison carefully …showed first 75 words of 513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 513 total…saw it and laughed and –and that is why they call me Milkman and that is why my father never does and that is why my mother never does, but everybody else does” (Morrison 78). Morrison uses these motifs and many others throughout the novel to enlighten and entertain the reader. I find them to be an extremely useful tool that helps a reader to focus on the intimate feelings that the author wishes to portray.