Song Of Solomon Home Analysis

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Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon explores many aspects of humans through her settings. From extravagant 12 room homes and beach houses in Honore, to two room houses on the southside, she brilliantly explores the dynamics of black economic backgrounds from the 30’s to the 60’s. Arguably the most significant place in the novel is the home of Pilate. If one were to walk down Pilates southside block to her home one would first notice the smell of the home. The home has “her smell”, the smell of pine and fermenting fruit lingers throughout the home. One would then notice that there is a cellar that can only be entered from the outside under a metal door that slanted away from the house and opened onto stone stairs. When one walks into the home, they will find that the home is missing many commodities of most homes, like a bathroom, a dining area or even a backdoor. The home in fact only has two, barren and cluttered …show more content…
He can be himself there and doesn’t have to worry about his father beating up on his mother, his sisters despising him, or his mother being the small, helpless woman that she is. Pilates home is Milkman’s childhood, the good parts anyway. But as Milkman grows up he seems to forget all the good that happened there. He goes to the home filled with greed steals what he believes to be her inheritance, he even was willing to knock her down for the gold. Later Milkman fells ashamed that he committed the crime and that he was willing to knock down the lady that cooked him his first perfect egg,who had shown him the sky, the woman that got him and Guitar out of prison when they betrayed her and the woman that is the very reason he is alive. He broke into the only house that he knew “that achieved comfort without one article of comfort in it” (301) and that showed him love whenever he came no matter what he
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