The Hungry Woman is a great struggle story of love and power. Take into consideration Madea’s love for Luna. Perhaps it is obvious that she loves her. After all, they have been together for seven years and they constantly have sex throughout the play. But is their sex a product of love or lust?
Take for account the scene where Luna comes home to find Madea drunk. Madea expresses her longing for Luna’s touch. In her drunkenness she wants her body. Luna however, has a similar mind set. After they have sex in that scene, Luna asks Madea to tell her about who she was while she was with her husband.

Luna: Tell me who you were with him?
Medea: It still interest you?
Luna: Yes
Medea: Why?
Luna: It gives me something… somehow.
Medea: What?
Luna: I don’t know. That I have you that way, like he did. But different. Knowing he wasn’t-
Medea: Enough?
Luna: Yes.
Medea: You haven’t changed.

After seven years of being together, Luna is infatuated with the idea of her having Medea’s attention in a way Jason didn’t. Luna knows that she is sufficient for Medea, or at least enough for her to stay with her for so long. Luna sees this as power she has over Jason and also power that she has over Medea. If Luna wasn’t able to give Medea, to some degree at least; her desires and fill her needs, Medea would have no reason to be with her. In a sense, Luna Keep Medea grounded.
Furthermore, Medea admits that “her kind [of lesbians]” are a “dying breed.” She explains, “My tragedy will be an example to all women like me. Vain women who only know how to be beloved.” In a sense, Medea does not know how to be the lover, she only can be the beloved. She does not know how to give herself away because she is not in love, she is lust. In many ways Medea is with Luna because she has to be. Luna feeds Medea’s flesh. That’s why Luna has so much power over Medea.
Another odd struggle of love and power is Medea’s relationship with Choc-Mool. Throughout the play Medea’s love for Choc-Mool is very apparent. However, there are scenes that question whether Medea loves Choc-Mool or the power she had over him. In one part of the play, Medea describes what it was like when Choc-Mool stopped breast feeding from her. She claimed it was “peer pressure,” but she completely over looks the fact that he was three years old, “on his way out to play.” It was such a dramatic memory for Medea because it was a moment when her son became dependent of her. She could not accept the fact that her son was growing up because it meant she would no longer have power over him. He would no longer need her. Ultimately, it is her need for power that is her demise, and he reason she kills Choc-Mool. She could not bear the though of him being completely independent from her that she kills him. His murder was her ultimate act of exercising her power. She believed that she was entitled so much power over her son that she could take his life.
Madea’s need for power over ruled the love she had for others. She allowed her obsession to control Choc-Mool’s life lead to his death, and in the process endanger her relationship with Luna.