The nature of the opposition in Morrison’s fiction is more abstract and inclusive. The safe space of intimate relationships on the top level of community is still present

and even extended to include the more or less successful inter-gender community

but the true power of the oppositional efforts exists on the broader levels of community

within the town/neighbourhood as well as on the abstract bottom level that involves collective memory and shared experience of oppression. The abstract concept of love is central to opposition on the most broad and inclusive level of community

but its definition varies according to the beholder. It is located somewhere in a web that extends from universal love and a desire for harmonious interaction between groups and individuals of different ways of thought to a destructive perception of love as inclusive within but not across racial and ideological barriers.