Meanwhile, Macon is happy to have his son working with him because it relieves him of the job of collecting rents and makes him feel that his son now belongs to him rather than to Ruth. Knowing that he can never be like his father, Milkman determines to be as different from him as possible. The narrative then shifts to fourteen-year-old Milkman and the changing relationship between him and his father. Along the way, Guitar tells Milkman the story of his father's death and Guitar's subsequent aversion to sweets. After the boys leave the barbershop, they continue through the Southside neighborhood. Hospital Tommy asks the boys why they aren't in school and then lectures Milkman on how unfair he'll always be treated, painting a dismal picture of the things he'll never have, the least of which is a bottle of beer. When Feather refuses to admit Milkman into his establishment or sell him a beer because he dislikes Milkman's father, Guitar and Milkman continue down Tenth Street to the local barbershop, owned by two old men, Railroad Tommy and Hospital Tommy. At Feather's, they see several men playing pool, including three awe-inspiring air force fighter pilots. They stop first at Feather's pool hall, located in a rough part of Southside known as the Blood Bank. Milkman works at his father's real-estate office and likes his job because it gives him more time to visit Hagar at Pilate's house and to meet people who live in Guitar's Southside neighborhood.Īs the chapter opens, Guitar and Milkman have decided to skip school and "hang out" in Southside. The chapter begins and ends with conversations between Milkman and Guitar. Spanning a period of ten years, Chapter 3 traces Milkman's life from age twelve to twenty-two.
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