comment on structure

The structure of the novel Jazz is exactly like a jazz quintet playing riffs on a familiar theme. Morrison's structure relies heavily on her consummate power to transform stories into sagas with multiple levels of meaning. The entire plot of this novel is revealed in the first five sentences. The author proceeds to elaborate on the story, retelling it from different points of view, until almost all our assumptions about the original tale are transformed. The narrative moves freely between different time periods, and sometimes different view points, within the same chapter.