In Song of Solomon , there is the idea that love has to be twisted. Every example of love in the book depicts love as an ultra-violent force that controls and ruins lives. However, I think that the book also shows that love has to be “wrong” in order to exist. Love must be abnormal, and it won’t work out. Throughout the story Ruth is described as having a perverted relationship with her father. From what we are told, she got great satisfaction from that connection. Macon describes his wife as “laying next to him. Naked as a yard dog, kissing him.” Ruth even says that her father was “the only person who ever really cared whether I lived or died”. That even despite this unnatural pairing there was still a very intense love. Then there is Hagar and Milkman. First Milkman and Hagar are cousins, which even back then was taboo. The rest of the town also considers this relationship to be wrong. “Ought to be shamed, the two of them. Cousins .” However, this is the only we...