Broken Women in Paradise

Broken Women in Paradise <Tab/>Toni Morrison's Paradise reveals a portrait of four broken women - Mavis, Grace, Seneca, and Pallas. These women come to the Convent looking for something; however, none of them are aware of what it is they are searching for until it happens to them. All the women have been hurt by their past and they go to the Convent, mostly by accident, looking for help. At …

…are and are no longer merely physical embodiments of whatever trauma they suffered. Consolata becomes a new "Reverend Mother" who gives them "bloodless food and water alone to quench their thirst" (265). She gave them an outlet for their pain and taught them how to let go and begin to heal each other. In the end, each woman becomes the woman she was meant to be before they were broken by the events in their lives.