“If the fabric of Cane is the life essence and its meaning behind absurdity, then Jean Toomer’s women characters are the threads which weave cane together….perhaps they are all the same women archetypal women, all wearing different faces, but each possessing an identifiable aspect of womanhood. (Jean Toomer Cane, pg.257) In Toomer’s Cane the struggle of women in the South is seen vividly throughout the first section of the book. Toomer portrays …showed first 75 words of 1065 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1065 total…and women. The conflict between men and women that often deal with the role of sex and the established role of women. Toomer thoroughly describes the struggle and suffering of women in an unmatched clear and poetic manner; moreover, he presents this by putting their lives on paper and exposing the realties of the lives of Karintha, Becky, Carma, and Fern. Although Toomer gives each character their individual idiosyncrasy they all are relatively the same.