5/10/2023 0 Comments Jazz novel by toni morrison![]() During long sleepless nights, Violet and Joe take turns going in the parlor and staring at the dead girl's photo. Alice Manfred even lends Violet an unsmiling photograph of Dorcas, which she takes home and puts on the couple's mantle. The two women develop a strange, uneasy friendship. ![]() She begins to write notes to Dorcas's aunt, Alice Manfred, and then visits her. Instead, she decides to fall in love with, or at least learn more about, Dorcas. When that fails to move Joe, she decides to fall in love with him all over, but she is unable to bring herself to do more than fix his meals and iron his handkerchiefs. She has only managed to nick Dorcas under the ear.Ĭrazy Violet has a brief affair with another man. Violet is strong, but finally the ushers wrestle her to the floor. ![]() Joe's wife Violet, reputed to be a crazy woman, goes to the funeral with a knife and attempts to disfigure the face of the beautiful girl in her casket. Dorcas refuses to implicate Joe, declining medical assistance and telling everyone who asks about the shooter, "I'll tell you tomorrow." When Dorcas leaves Joe for a younger man, he tracks her down at a party and shoots her. ![]() Jazz is the story of a love affair between Joe Trace, a fifty-year-old married waiter and part-time cosmetics salesman, and Dorcas, a seventeen-year-old girl. ![]()
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