Man-woman relationship is as old as human survival. Earlier it was a biological need. The contemporary complexity of it is an adding up of culture. It is a manifestation of existence which figures the central part in literature. Since the beginning, literary venture has been to represent this relationship along with its concomitants, and to bring out the misfortune. Fiction is the most attribute and prevailing outward appearance of literary term in modern times. The ever-changing reality of life inevitably reflects itself in literature. Morrisons novels are no exception as regards her depiction of man-woman relationship. Like other novelists, she too explores the tensions and pretensions in this area of life. That man-woman relationship forms a major theme in her novels. All her novels taken up for study here reveal the varied phases of man-woman relationship; marital, premarital, and extra-marital. There is a comprehensive portrayal of man-woman relationship in Morrisons novels. She speaks of what it was in the past in America, and how it extended to the modern times without much change. She describes how superstitions and infidelity affected conjugal relationships. As a novelist with a keen observation of life, she analyses the reasons for happy and unhappy marital lives. With the k
een insight of a psychologist, she portrays pre-marital and extra-marital relationships, and shows sex as the primary instinct in man woman relationships. She has a clear and correct understanding of the working of the masculine and feminine mind. She portrays the frivolous attitude of man who casts away women like worn-out shoes in the presence of new ones. She shows that man is not able to fathom the mysteries of the feminine mind. She wants man not to consider women merely as a means for the release of sexual energy. In reality, the African American society comes out from the slave era. It was identified as the emasculation of the men. As a result, the readers find the vicious treatment in the man-woman relationships. Most of the critics propose that the womens helplessness comes into view to have been accentuated by or associated to intimidation or denial of, the manhood of the male slave. It is rather expected any female writer can set the genuine voice than the male voice in their storylines. Female writer are the supporter for the rational depiction of man-woman relationship. Unquestionably, the African American society emerging from the slave era, it was recognized as the emasculation of the men. Consequently, the readers meet the vicious conduct in the man-woman relationship.