To be Casper or not to be
Ok, so I have some very mixed feelings on the character Beloved. I sort of feel we have evidence for her being the baby in a human form. With Denver’s comments and when she started “falling apart.” But the question I have is “Is Beloved a good ghost?” I feel like she has good intentions but the little things she says sets me on edge. First, her extreme intense loyalty to Sethe. Every day, she goes to meet Sethe on her way home from work. Each day she walks out even further to meet her (by further I mean a few more miles). She has also continuously made it clear (to Denver) that she is there for only Sethe. Denver is occasionally hurt by this but forgets it and moves on as if nothing happened. This is (I believe) the main reason why she dislikes Paul D. She looks at him as a competitor for Sethe’s attention. Paul D. also thinks that she is the reason he can’t be in the house (although he hasn’t recognized why). A theory for this could be that she is still a baby and needs/wants this