Beloved by Toni Morrison is a novel that explores the past and present life of Sethe, a former slave, along with her daughter, Denver, and numerous other people within her life. As the story progresses, it is clear that her harsh upbringing and background is the root for many issues within the relationships she has with everyone within her life. Some of these people include Sethe’s daughters Denver and Beloved and the Sweet Home boys, Paul D., Paul F., Paul A., Halle, and Sixo. All of these characters have strange relationships in their interconnected family like home structure and not just with Sethe, but with each other as well. Beloved and Denver in particular along with the Sweet Home boys develop this odd structure as a result of many familial issues.
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The three half brothers, Paul D., Paul A., and Paul F., end up growing up together with Sixo and Halle. The five grow up together in a bizarre way as each one of them pine for “ the new girl” except for Sixo who has a girlfriend thrifty miles away, and they adopt odd lifestyle as a result as described by Morrison: “And so they were: Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs and Sixo, the wild man. All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl—the one who took Baby Suggs' place after Halle bought her with five years of Sundays” (Morrison 11). The new girl they mention ends up being 13 year old Sethe. All of them, except for Sixo, wanted to be marry her causing weird tensions within their family. After a year of deliberation, she chooses to marry Halle due to his gentleness shown by his work to emancipate his crippled mother Baby Suggs. When Sethe and Paul D start their relationship, Sethe realizes that the passion they share is much different from the sibling like love that she and Halle
From early in the novel when the ghost of …show more content…
The three half brothers, Paul D., Paul A., and Paul F., end up growing up together with Sixo and Halle. The five grow up together in a bizarre way as each one of them pine for “ the new girl” except for Sixo who has a girlfriend thrifty miles away, and they adopt odd lifestyle as a result as described by Morrison: “And so they were: Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs and Sixo, the wild man. All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl—the one who took Baby Suggs' place after Halle bought her with five years of Sundays” (Morrison 11). The new girl they mention ends up being 13 year old Sethe. All of them, except for Sixo, wanted to be marry her causing weird tensions within their family. After a year of deliberation, she chooses to marry Halle due to his gentleness shown by his work to emancipate his crippled mother Baby Suggs. When Sethe and Paul D start their relationship, Sethe realizes that the passion they share is much different from the sibling like love that she and Halle