Hagar's Chapter
One chapter of Song of Solomon that really stood out to me was the chapter where Hagar is so devastated over Milkman that she has a breakdown and becomes obsessed with her appearance. I think the scene where Hagar is struggling through the rain trying to pick up all her new clothes is one of the saddest in the whole book. She says she hadn’t even noticed it was raining until her new clothes fell out of the bag, and then,“she put down both bags, picked the skirt up and brushed the crumbs of gravel that stuck to it. Quickly she refolded it, but when she tried to tuck it back into the shopping bag, the bag collapsed altogether. Rain soaked her hair and poured down her neck as she stopped to repair the damage… She had gone hardly ten yards when the bottom fell out of it. Hagar tripped on Jungle Red (Sculptura) and Youth Blend, and to her great dismay, saw her box of Sunny Glow toppling into a puddle” (Morrison 313). Like many of the other women in th...
