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Toomer's Cane: The Struggles Of African American Women

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The novel "Cane" focuses on the racial, social, and economical problems faced in both the rural south and urban north. Toomer helps portray the lives of African Americans at the time and help to understand the struggles they faced. The stories and poems of the first section are set in rural Georgia and describe the lives of African American woman. It helps illustrate the setting and strong language of the South, along with the beauty and brutality of it as well. The first story of the book "Karintha" relates to the struggles of a young African American woman whose beauty charmed the men of her community. She is pushed into society 's expectations of women 's roles and the pressure to satisfy society rather than herself. Becky was rejected
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