Close reading #2

Being away from a family member that you lost contact with for many years may hurt. But knowing that for some reason you reconnected with them again it gives you joy and you feel alive once more. When a family that has not seen each other in so long want to do is give each other all the attention, reconnect with them, know why it was that you lost contact. However giving them that attention is coming from the heart right? Its not mandatory for you to give them all your attention. Right? In Beloved we find out that since day one beloved  has always had this attraction to Sethe. It makes beloved seem as a child for her to be so old but act like a 3 year old. Sethe feels bad for her, so she gives her all the attention that she could give her. However there is a time where Sethe can not give beloved that attention anymore.

“But it was Beloved who made demands. Anything she wanted she got, and when Sethe ran out of things to giver her, Beloved invented desire” (283) Even though Sethe was not being controlled by a male or was being abused by one. Beloved was that “male” in control. Men have the mentality that women are always going to be under their arms. If they tell us what to do we will do it. Reason why is because we do it out of fear. In this case Beloved had Sethe under her arms. If she wanted something Sethe would do it. The way that this connects to my lens is because during that time women were known as not being able to be independent. That they had to have a male role model “protecting” them and provide shelter. However in this case Beloved feels abandoned and has so much anger that Sethe left her, that she wants all her attention to be on her.