Toni Morrison through Song of Solomon creates a world of opposition and hostility, a world of differences. Through inventing characters with distinct personalities, Morrison is able to present everyone's special story. Milkman, like his father, is a character trapped by greed for the material world and is unable to escape this control. He must live through his own circumstances, a life of privilege and power but ignorance and blindness. In a like manner, the submissive women must deal with male dominance. Although the novel's emphasis is certainly on Milkman's personal coming-of-age, Morrison gives readers another character's story to follow--Guitar's. Guitar is different from Milkman, and readers are able to notice their disparities early in the novel. With a radical hatred toward the whites, he wishes to avenge his fellow blacks of all their evils. Uncommonly acute, he, unlike the insensible Milkman, knows about what is going on in...