Milkman: The Antithesis of Macon Dead II
Up to where we are in the novel right now, I viewed Milkman as the object of the struggle between his mother and his father and I believed that Milkman was the complete opposite of everything his father was. Milkman seemed to empathize a little more with his renters’ struggles than the cold hearted manner his father dealt with them. Milkman also seemed to put little emphasis on the business, therefore eliminating the chance of obtaining his father’s snobbish manner, and made friends and interacted with people, such as Guitar and Pilate, that his father never would. Lastly, he hit his father for hitting his mother, which demonstrated to me Milkman’s want to be ideologically different from his father. However, in Chapter 6 during his discussion with Guitar, Milkman stated: “He wondered what they would do if they didn’t have black and white problems to talk about. Who would they be if they couldn’t describe the insults, violence, and oppression that their lives (and the television n...