Beloved | Pages 218–235: Summary and Analysis

New Characters:
Vashti: Stamp Paid’s now-deceased wife

Joshua: Stamp Paid’s former slave name

Summary
Paul D is drinking on the steps of the church, remembering when Stamp Paid finds him in order to apologize for no one in the community offering to take him in (Paul D tells him Reverend Pike offered, but he preferred to be alone), and to tell him he, Stamp Paid, had been present when Sethe killed Beloved and tried to kill her other children. He tells Paul D it wasn’t like he thinks it was. Paul D is full of his own thoughts about the past:...


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