Macon Dead, Joe Trace, and Son Green can each be understood as figures held in the thrall of aspiration, consternation, and rage, the by-products of an overriding sense of estrangement. As such it would be easy to infer that these particular characters are synonymous with failure.
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Beavers, H. (2018). Held in the Thrall: Morrison’s Southern Men and the Arrested Motion of Tight Space. In Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (pp. 25–56). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65999-2_2
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