Beloved Post 2

                                                Beloved post 2

             This novel contains both bittersweet reunions and memories that have been shattered by the mere thought of its existence lasting well over a life time. Sethe has experienced the joy and pain of life’s pleasures. She finds a way of coping with the hand that life has dealt her, strenuous at times. The gift of the life is what she was chosen to perform. It is a blessing to conceive a child and especially one that is a product of two human beings whose love is more than just lust. On the Sweet Home Farm Halle was the lucky one so everyone thought. He was the first and only Sweet Home man at the time to touch Sethe, to caress her in every way he could. Twice their love making was in secret but everyone knew what they were doing when they ran off into the cornfields away from Mr. Gardner and the rest of Sweet Home Men. As stated “Halle wanted privacy for her and got public display” (26). All of her life memories of the days she lived on the farm and with every smell and touch she is mesmerized by all of her fondest most wondrous and unbearable times while lying in the bed with Paul D.  

            As I read further I could understand why Denver is so hurt and lonely. Her mother is being distracted by Paul D for three days she has dealt with this unfamiliar man in her home. Familiar to her mother but unfamiliar to her, especially because it is just the two of them, Denver is not used to her mother giving some strange man her attention and loving affection. A part of me wants to say that Sethe longed for the same love and affection from another even if it is just temporary. An example of this can be seen when Denver asked Paul D “how long he was going to hang around” (43). She seemed almost flustered  by both his and her reaction sending Denver off and Paul D chastising Sethe for not disciplining Denver for her blunt questioning. He thought because Denver said it maybe Sethe was thinking it. I found myself getting uncomfortable with his line of questioning towards Sethe because a child is still a child, yet Denver’s question was perhaps something Paul D was not expecting from her. He states that she is grown and that he is not asking her to make a choice but to correct her when she is wrong not protect her. I think every mother if she is a mother at all is innate to protect her child right or wrong because she is her heart and soul. Though it is hard Paul D is trying to become a part of their little home. He has slowly but surely made his way back into Sethe arms and into her home walking for seven years to finally come upon her traveling upstate, downstate. He states “we can make a life, girl. A life” (46).  It seems as though love has found her once more but is she truly ready to open herself and her life to the perilous thought of someone showing affection towards her again and if so can her daughter Denver accept the love of another for her mother.