The couple is at the center of the novel’s investigation of the complexities faced by those millions of African Americans who moved from the rural South to the North during the great migration in search of jobs and a better life in the cities. The novel tells the story of the New York neighborhood Harlem from the perspective of its ordinary inhabitants, namely Joe and Violet Trace. The woman was dead the next day and so intentionally did not betray her lover, the man who had murdered her. The idea for the novel originated with a James Van Der Zee photograph of a dead teenaged woman who, knowing she was dying, told her friends that tomorrow she would give them the name of the man who had shot her with a silenced gun at a rent party. Jazz (1992) is the second of a trilogy of Morrison’s novels reflecting on the idea of love and its manifestations.
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