Beloved | Paul D.

"For a man with an immobile face," Sethe thinks of Paul D., "it was amazing how ready it was to smile, or blaze or be sorry with you." Perhaps it is this ability to "produce the feeling you were feeling" that makes him "the kind of man who could walk into a house and make the women cry." But the cruelty of slavery has left Paul D. with a "tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be. Its lid rusted shut." He is the only man left from Sweet Home; his brothers Paul F. and Paul A. were sold away or hung, while Sixo was burned and Halle was broken. Paul D. is sold from Sweet...

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