Paradise

This document provides an abstract and introduction for a paper analyzing Toni Morrison's novel Paradise from a feminist perspective. The abstract gives an overview of the novel and states that the paper will observe feminist concepts and patriarchy in the two communities portrayed - the all-black town of Ruby and the women living in a nearby convent. The introduction provides background on the founding of Ruby and descriptions of the main characters from both Ruby and the convent to set up a feminist analysis in the rest of the paper.