Topic > Analysis of Sethe in Beloved by Toni Morrison - 2553
Morrison highlights this idea of reliving the experience of slavery when Mr. Bodwin and Denver enter Sethe's backyard after exorcising Beloved from her life. At this time, Sethe believes that Mr. Bodwin is a school teacher and feels that he will treat her the same way the teacher treated her at Sweet Home. With this, Morrison seems to deconstruct the concepts of joint family structure and brokenness of slave families in his novel by having Mr. Bodwin function as a bad argument that removes Denver from his life. Denver, after working for Mr. Bodwin, eventually becomes a mother to herself, as she ends up providing for herself without much assistance. Simply switch to the side Sethe associates with
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