In Song of Songs, Toni Morrison constantly changes the novel's setting, tone, style, and theme to frame Hagar's character in the novel as a rounded character which reveals his weaknesses due to a love obsession which also foreshadowed his imminent decay. Hagar being one of the central characters of the story is also a very contradictory character who as a child was an independent, intelligent, realistic and detached girl with the freedom that her mother and grandmother "passed on" to her. They had no attachments or need for support from men like white women and many black women had during and before the civil rights movement, yet (she) “loses” power over her will to a “love” that drags her to death. Although Hagar possessed the identity of a black child because of freedom, she was also a spoiled child who lived with nothing, but wanted everything just like a spoiled white child who asked and was content. Many characters assume that this was the cause of his failure and inability to recover. In conceiving the novel, Morrison constantly changes the setting to emphasize the passage of time; for example, the novel begins in Mercy Hospital, 1931, Michigan, with the birth of Milkman, then as time passes it takes place in different streets such as "Not Doctor Street", the barber shop and "Darling Street". Each place is given a significant name that symbolizes the people who live there. However, when it comes to Hagar, the setting surrounding her character is basically "Darling Street" where she lives with her mother and grandmother, Guitar's house (where she sees Milkman), the mall where she "buys her products of beauty" and hair products. living room. Since she is not the main character of the novel, Morrison acknowledges to Hagar's reader that...... middle of paper...... that the characters in the novel are not tied to their African origin and culture due to the American culture in which they live and the belief that white people have imposed that they are better and correct. Being in the midst of the civil rights movement, and living in a time where black men and women were unequal to white males, and having her grandmother's freedom and ideas that a woman doesn't need a man to live, ironically turns everyone against It. Hagar oppresses herself by giving up her identity as a black woman and her pride as an individual to keep what she no longer possesses. In the end it is a failure because she decided it and therefore women should not lose their true identity and values ​​and use them to be loving individuals and then be able to love others. Work Cited Morrison, Toni. Song of Songs. New York: Knopf, 1977. Print.