In conclusion, Beloved is a text the emphasizes femininity over masculinity. This is evident through Sethe and Denver’s willingness to stay in the haunted 124 even when her own sons ran away, Sethe’s ability to better cope with traumatic memories than her masculine counterparts, and Beloved’s ability to manipulate and seduce Paul D. Paul D was the only male character to contest my statement, seeing as he had the ability to seal his emotions and memories in the tobacco tin. As I described, Paul D’s tin was eventually payed open which cause him to become emotionally unstable. He began to question his manhood and was unable to accept Sethe’s actions regarding her deceased, infant child. Paul D in turn abandoned Sethe ad Denver just like Halle,
