The Tar Baby
Here's a real shocker: the titular (hee, hee) terms "tar baby" is also one of the major symbols of this novel. And here's another shocker: in a novel where morality only exists in a gray area and n...
The Night Women
The Night Women are hallucinations that visit Jade when she is staying at Son's aunt's house in Eloe, Florida. Most of these women are from Eloe, but one of them is an African woman she once saw in...
The Greenhouse
Valerian Street is a man who is used to controlling the world around him. As a rich candy maker, he has always controlled his employees, his servants, and his financial situation. The one thing he...
Son's Original Dime
According to Son, the only thing he wants out of life is the first dime he ever earned from a fellow black man. Or in other words, he wishes that he could always have the feeling that he got from e...