Abstract
 
Toni Morrison’s novels always pay attention to the living state of black women. Fathers are always regarded as the first spiritual support for black women. To a large extent, paternal love is the key point determining whether black women are happy or not. In Toni Morrison’s novel, Love, Bill Cosey is an idealized father. Based on the inductive analysis of Bill Cosey, the black father figure, this thesis tends to explore black father’s function in black communities and influence to black women. 
 In the black community, an imagined father is created to meet the demand of a great father figure in the particular social context. The construction of Bill Cosey as a protective father is the outcome of this demand. A symbolic father in the eyes of three black girls, Heed, Christine and Junior is idealized as Bill Cosey, who meets their imagination of a perfect father. In fact, Bill Cosey, who is regarded as the real representative of a great father figure in the whole black community, and is the reliable spiritual support for three black girls, is not only a normal man but also an ugly father. The true features of Bill Cosey are restored by L’ narration and Sandler’s description..
To a large extent, the extreme gap between the imagined father figure and the real one causes the black women to suffer more than their male counterparts. The women’s voices tend to be ignored and neglected. What’s worse, in the patriarchal society, the predominate father figure shadows the possible alliance between the black woman and makes it hard for them to gain spiritual support from each other. The damage of friendships and lack of mutual trust often lead to the tragedy of black women.

Key words: Toni Morrison, Love, Father

摘要

托妮·莫里森的小说一直以来关注黑人女性的生存状态。“父亲”作为黑人女性自出生以来的第一情感依靠，是黑人女性能否获得幸福的一大关键因素。通过对黑人父亲比尔·柯西的归纳分析，本文将探索黑人父亲形象在黑人社区里的作用和对黑人女性的影响。
黑人社群中被想象出的父亲形象是特定环境下对伟岸的父亲形象的渴求，比尔·柯西在黑人社群中因此被片面塑造来满足这一渴求。而希德，克里斯廷和朱妮尔这三个黑人女孩眼中具有象征意义的父亲形象被具体化为比尔·柯西，因其满足他们对一个完美的父亲的想象。比尔·柯西被认为是整个黑人社群中伟大的父亲的代表，对三个黑人女孩而言更是可靠的情感依靠，但其实只是一个普通人，更是一个丑陋的“父亲”。比尔·柯西的真面目是通过L叙述和桑德勒的描述还原出来的。
想象与现实的极限差距在一定程度上导致了黑人女性较之黑人男性遭受更多。女性的声音常常被忽视被忽略，更糟糕的是，在父权社会，占主导地位的父亲遮蔽了黑人女性之间可能的联盟，使他们很难获得精神上的互相支持。友谊的破碎和相互信任的缺乏常常导致黑人女性的悲剧性结局。

关键词：托妮·莫里森，《爱》，父亲