Jazz Paper The Relationship of Dorcas and Felice In the novel Jazz, written by Toni Morrison, the relationships formed among the characters highlight the idiosyncrasies of the characters themselves. Morrison created Felice in the novel to portray the negative side Dorcas to the reader and Joe to illustrate the nice side. The relationship of Dorcas and Felice is definitely one of the most important throughout the story. Felice serves sort of as “the middle-man” between …showed first 75 words of 1446 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1446 total…can tell the audience very much about each individual. In some cases the relationship of two individuals can tell the story of another person, which is the case of this story. Without the most important relationship of Dorcas and Felice the reader would not have a total grasp of both Joe and Dorcas’s secret relationship. Felice is the one that knows the whole story and she explains it to the audience throughout the novel.