Commodification of Love in Toni Morrison's Love

Abstract

Toni Morrison's Love portrays the female characters surrounding a single male Bill Cosey,who fascinates and even dominates them. They all love Cosey while alive and even after his death. But they use their love-commodify-to acquire the property, position and power of Cosey. Thus, the commodification of love is for the power which Cosey practiced upon them. The female characters Heed, Christine, May, Vida, L, Celestine and even Junior have seen the power and position of Cosey, and to inherit and poseit, they commodity their love. Here, the use and intention of commodification-or self-commodification-has positive effect and impact.