Summary Of Recitatif By Toni Morrison

In Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”, Maggie represents the outsider. Maggie is a woman who works in the kitchen at St. Bonny’s and gets abused by older kids. The story “Recitatif” is all about race, although we do not know which girl is white and which girl is black. Maggie’s race is also unknown. However, it is brought to our attention that Maggie is very different from the others. Maggie symbolizes those who are treated inferior, and put down by the bigger kids, as well as Twyla and Roberta. Due to the fact that Maggie is considered to be the outcast, she does not experience cohesion with anyone. Maggie is also the beneficiary of others’ ridicule and abuse when she falls down the orchard. She also experiences things like this from Twyla and Roberta.