Dinah, is a young lady who detests the conventional role of women in the society. Her father, Mr. Al, is a jazz musician and an excellent composer. Being the only child, Dinah is the joy of her father and she someday hopes to be a composer just like her father. She is denied any training in music because as a woman, her place was in the home and not on a stage, singing. However, she abandons her daily chores to practice music whenever alone in the house. Like the Margaret Bonds in Green’s Black Female
Beloved, Toni Morrison’s fifth novel, is seen as a controversial masterpiece by many critics. This novel was written in 1987 and failed to achieve many goals such as; winning the National Book Award or the National Book Critics Circle Award. However, Morrison was held in such high regard that forty-eight other influential African American writers’ and critics signed a tribute to her career. This tribute was published and put in the 24 January 1988 edition of the New York Times Book Review. Mckay
It cannot be debated that women have transformed a lot in the last decade. Ever since that period when women were given the right to vote during the early years of the 20th century, women have been able to garner more than the right of suffrage. They have been able to penetrate other areas outside of their seemingly seen traditional roles as wives and mothers. In fact, at present women have been able to perform their roles outside of the domestic sphere. They could be working women with successful