A Look at the Character Karintha in Jean Toomers Cane Essay -- Toomer

A Look at the Character Karintha in Jean Toomers Cane Jean Toomers Cane begins with a vignette authorize Karintha about a raw woman who grows up too quickly. The first of all paragraph tell us that manpower had always wanted her, this Karintha, crimson as child.... From the description that is presented, it appears that she was always beautiful and desirous to men, even when she was a mere child. Men of all get along withs wanted her from the time she was young - the young men couldnt wait until she was old enough to court, while the old men wished they could get younger instead of older as time went by so that they might give birth a chance with Karintha. The final sentence of the first paragraph intrigued me, saying that this interest of the male, who wishes to ripen a ripening thing too soon, could mean no good to her Karintha. I recover that this is Toomers way of emphasizing to his audience that what the men were doing was very selfish on their part. The se men did not really cargon about Karintha the child or Karintha the future young woman. All they cared about was the possibility of a conquest even if the victim would be young, at least she would be beautiful. sluice those younger men who might have had a chance with her many another(prenominal) years in the future did not have the patience to wait. preferably they danced with her at frolics when they should have been spending their time with women in their own age group. There was not any concern for Karintha, just for the needs and desires of these men, who should have had enough self-control that this would not have even been an issue. Instead of hold for Karintha to develop from a child to an adult, these men felt the need to mess the process, to ripen a growing thing too soon, an... ...e world of Cane, with its motley stories and poems about the African-American experience. I felt sorry for Karintha in this story. She was a person that was judged her entire life - even in childhood - by her appearance and what that could mean to various men. The choices that she made as an adult are not really surprising when you consider the way that she was treated in her childhood and adolescence, almost as someone who could be sold to the highest bidder (which essentially became her life as an adult). Nowhere in this story is there a mention of Karinthas admirable intelligence or ability of some crystallize (unless you count stoning cows). Because all that is discussed is Karinthas beauty, I saw her as a very one-dimensional character. The men in this story were in a constant pursuit of Karinthas body- and unfortunately for her, in the end they won.