Toni Morrison's Jazz

Overtime, as literature changes and the purpose of it changes as well. Writers have transitioned from modern ideals to post-modern principles, infatuating life and the lessons seek to pass it on. Post-Modernist like to refer to other pieces of literature and either praise the work or challenge it. In Toni Morrison’s Jazz, not only do we get an unusual plot but we also get a strange analogy that refers and challenges the Bible in Genesis 1 & 2 and. While Morrison challenge this master narrative by making comparison of her characters and the character in Genesis, she also emphasizes the limitations of a book. Throughout the novel, Morrison constantly reminds us that this is just a book and all the answers of life will not be found in a book. Morrison explains how we cannot force a book to mean anything and try to find a way to use that in your life because the story and characters and plot were never real.
On the other hand, in Genesis 1, man and woman were created together, showing equality between the sexes. In Genesis 1, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27) . In the second version of the creation of man, Genesis 2, we are told that woman was created from man, which is why most people belive that male is dominant. In the second version of creation of man in Genesis 2, “So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man” (Gen. 2: 21-24). These two visions of creation contradict each other due to the way man and women were