Monday, April 11, 2011
Section Two Point of Veiw
Sethe is such a strong character and I think Morrison really has her set up this in Section One. But now that we're getting into her head I think that her confidence is really just a front of denial. Sethe is using the realization Beloved is her daughter to disregard all of the real world stuff going on around her. "The world is in this room. This here's all there and all there needs to be." (215) Sethe is under the delusion that what she believes is the reincarnation of her dead baby is the cure for: her sons leaving, because if she can come back surely they will too; Baby Suggs death, because she can lay down her worries now like Baby always told her to; and that the repulsion of her peers to her house no longer matters because the outside world is nothing like what she has here on the floor in front of her.
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I would agree that Sethe is set up as a very strong and secure woman in the first section. However, as section II comes and we get a deeper understanding of the inner workings of Sethe's mind we find her to be a highly unstable and almost irrational person. She seems to perhaps be unhealthy in her thought processes. She is ok just spending the rest of her life bunkered up within 124 along side her two daughters. Sethe seems to be "losing it" and grasping out for something (Beloved) to give her a sense that everything is going to be alright.
ReplyDeleteI think Sethe's character disappointed me the most in Section II because her confidence was just a front for a torn and tormented person. I initially viewed her as a strong person who overcame adversity, but now I think she's just broken inside by her past.
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