Alexis Lloyd: Week 2

The intrusions that introduce the novel are guilt, sorrow, regret, and uncertainty. From the beginning Sethe is very uncertain about the things that are happening to her and her family. She feels regret and sorrow because of the loss of her baby girl and the fact that the baby is still haunting them. Sethe also feels guilty because she doesn’t out right say that it is her fault her daughter is dead but I think she feels that its her fault that her two sons left her and n one come to visit her or her daughter because of the dead baby. In Sethe’s past innocence is the state that is most represented because she is so naïve when it comes to things like her marriage and her place during that time in society. But I also feel that innocence is represented in her present because she acts as though she knows nothing about life except her past and the memories that she has. But even the memories doesn’t help her because it seems as if in her past she didn’t get any experience in anything except being a mother. The only thing it seems she’s capable of is providing for her family but she doesn’t really know anything about life. She feels like she’s stuck in that house just because the soul of her baby girl but she doesn’t realize that while trying to please the ghost of her child she is hurting her other children especially Denver. Denver is becoming a young woman and is being isolated from the rest of the world because she doesn’t have any friends or other people to have mature conversations with except her mother. In the long run it is going to hurt her and like Paul D said it’s driving her crazy. In my option she should follow suit and leave just like her brothers did.