5. What version of love do you find most appealing or real in this novel?

Exactly the way he’d heard it would be, his life flashed before him, but it consisted of only one image: Hagar bending over him in perfect love, in the most intimate sexual gesture imaginable. (2.11.279)

The love between Milkman and Hagar is the love I find most appealing in this novel. Milkman has finally met someone he can truly love completely, and Hagar represents subservience in the true definition of the word. She is not a SERVANT, and she doesn't have to be submissive. She is who she is because she's in love; period. Her feelings for Milkman are complete, her feelings are true.