Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills (1985) cites the history of Nedeed's family generation and their loveless relationships. In the affluent Black community of Linden Hills, material wealth and power lead people to death and corruption and those who succeed in it are alienated and depersonalized, rather than having happiness in their life. At the top of the Afro-American community, there is Luther Nedeed whose humanity is consumed by his desire for this type of success, which finally makes him to kill himself and his own family in his burning house. In this paper, I illustrate how Gloria Naylor depicts the deepest emptiness in the absence of love with negotiation of the issues of race, class, gender and culture