Toni Morrison’s novel, "Song of Solomon," reveals the effects of constrictions placed on women during the the 1930s, by using flowers to accentuate the theme of gender inequality. Corinthians, Magdalena called Lena and Ruth’s interactions with flowers portray the hardships women had to experience because of their gender. Morrison’s flower motif reveals that women are extremely constricted in their family. Throughout most of her life, Corinthians makes artificial roses as a living. This portrays Morrison use of flower motif to reveal how she is constricted by her family. Even though she obtains a college degree, Corinthians is not able to get a decent job and instead has to work as a maid. She also still lives at home, which makes it difficult for Corinthians to have a romantic relationship without her father and/or brother intervening. The constrictions placed on Corinthian by her family and society causes Corinthians to have an unsatisfactory life in which she lacks love. This constriction can is portrayed through her hobby of making artificial roses. “When Corinthians woke up one day to find herself a forty-two-year old maker of rose petals, she suffered a severe depression which lasted until she made up her mind to get out of the house” (Morrison189). The lack of opportunities women had to get decent jobs constricted them towards becoming independent from their family. When Corinthians finally makes up her mind to ‘get out of the house’, she was still economically dependent of her father which does not give her an opportunity to escape the constrictions of her family. Since Corinthian cannot find a job, she picks up the hobby of making artificial roses. Ironically, roses symbolize love which Corinthians is something that Corinthian lacks in her life because of the dominant male figures in her life. Due to the constrictions she faces, Corinthians has difficulty maintaining a relationship with Porter. Since her father controls who Corinthians associates herself with, she has to maintain her love life a secret. However when her brother, Milkman, and father, Macon, they prohibit Corinthian and Porter from seeing each other. Even though Macon and Milkman are allowed to have secret affairs with multiple women they condemn Corinthians for a having a relationship with Porter. This reveals how Corinthians’ lif