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Basically, Yamamoto's (69) story describes how Mrs. Hattori responds to her husband's gambling problem. This woman treats her husband with respect, choosing to always call him Mr. Hattori and to respect his male superiority and position of authority within the family. As a woman caring for a husband and five minor children, Mrs. Hattori clearly recognizes that she is dependent upon her husband. She is a woman who is careful with money and who recognizes that she lives in a community where she is something of an outcast.

Yamamoto (72) makes it clear that this is not a happy marriage and that Mr. Hattori beats his wife "so severely that he had to take her to the doctor to have a few ribs taped. Both in their depths were dazed and shaken that things should ha

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hey watch. Cholly's reaction is a "violence born of total helplessness" which leads him to hate Darlene and to wish that "he could do it û hard, long, and painfully (Morrison, 148)." The violence in this particular scene is filled with multiple victims and related to multiple causes. Pecola is depicted by Morrison (181) as having been violated and as victimized. Pecola recognizes that "the soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seed it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear (Morrison, 206)." The novel therefore describes a community in which violence directed against a minority group is commonplace and in which this violence plays out in many different ways. Morrison's (138) characters, both male and female, are filled with "all of the bruises they had collected from moving about the earth." The women she describes are vulnerable to the machinations of all others: "White women said, 'do this.' White children said, 'give me that.' White man said, 'come here.' Black men said, 'lay down (Morrison, 138)." The end result is that the black women are forced to care for their beaten men and then accept abuse from those men. They are also required to tolerate the demands of white men and women an
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