and smiles (92), just as his mother did (13).
             Milkman's desire for his mother's milk disappears before she stops milking him,
             and when Freddie discovers the situation and notes the inappropriateness, she is
             left without this comfort. Similarly, Milkman ends the affair with Hagar when he
             loses the desire for her and recognizes that this affair with his cousin is not
             socially approved, leaving Hagar coldly and consciously, with money and a letter
             of gratitude. He is as deaf to the needs of women and as imperiously self-
             righteous as his father, who abandons his wife when he believes she loves her
             Macon teaches his son well the art of "pissing" on women. As Pilate
             attempts to awaken Macon to the inappropriateness of taking a dead man's gold
             and to their father's ghostly message, he urinates, enjoying the idea of "life,
             safety, and luxury" resulting from the gold (170). In his unnatural act, taking
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