1. Fact: Milkman is not interested in current events and is more interested in parties.
2. Milk Man searches for power, pleasure, and meaning. He wants to be initiated into Guitar's community, but he still lives in what is known to him.
3. Milkman is on the archetypical hero's journey.
4. " Something was happening to Guitar, had aleady happened to him. He was constantl chafing Milkman about how he lived, and the conversation was just one more example of how he'd changed. No more could Milkman run up the stairs to his room to drag him off to a party or a bar" (Morrison 106).
5. Milkman's journey is a modernization of the classic greek journey.
6. Milkman is affected by the conventialism of the real world and Magic Realism. He has one leg shorter than the other, witnesses Ruth's interactions with the bulbs, and is attracted to Pilate's mysterious ways. However, he still interacts with the real world by working for his father's buisness and attending parties.
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#3 is a valid interpretation; the others are retelling and evaluating the plot. Pull away from the text and look at how that character fits into the bigger picture.
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