In contrast, Joe Trace's visits are the pure result of his melancholic and slightly exaggerated memory of Dorcas. Violet cannot sleep and she visits the picture at night because it is quiet. Instead, his nightly vigils are his mourning for the love affair that has ended. This photograph is placed in a silver frame and kept on the mantle where Violet and Joe visit nightly, still separated by their silence.Įven though he has shot Dorcas, Joe is a well-mannered older man who does not feel guilt for his actions.
Dorcas' dignified aunt eventually warms up to Violet and eventually offers her a photograph of the young woman. After this, Violet learns the dances and music that Dorcas liked, and she talks to teachers at Ps-89 and JH-139. Wholly detached from the moral commentary and judgment of her peers, Violet embarks upon a search to know everything about Dorcas: she visits Malvonne, whose apartment was used as a "love nest" for Joe Trace and Dorcas. Below the gaze of the city's skyscrapers, the ghost of Dorcas is haunting the Traces and while the Salem Women's Club was going to help Violet, she has been ostracized because of her inappropriate behavior at the funeral. She is convinced that this will breach the gap separates her from her husband.Īmidst the chaos of individual relationships, the City emerges as omnipotent and glamorous, a force that inspires and controls the courses of the human characters. As Violet thinks about her loneliness and her grandmother down south, she has the sudden urge to build a family. Violet is lonely and regrets that she does not have an extensive family to fill the quiet of her apartmenta quiet that is exacerbated by her ejection of the birds. Violet is married and she lives with her husband, Joe Trace, but she is not wealthy as she makes little money as an unlicensed hairdresser, arriving at her clients' residences. On one afternoon, Violet began carelessly wandering the sidewalks and then, for no apparent reason, she sat down in the middle of street, surrounded by a few concerned neighbors. We learn that she has been living in Harlem for several years, but city life is difficult and the narrator hints that maybe the stresses of Harlem are finally wearing Violet down. The novel opens in the black Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, the year is 1926 and on an ice-cold winter morning, a woman named Violet Trace has thrown open her windows and emptied her birdcages of their flocks, including her favorite, lonely bird that always said "I love you." Violet is a fifty-year-old black woman, she is skinny and emotionally unstable.
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