Paul D’s expulsion of the ghost

God damn it! Hush up!” Paul D was shouting, falling reaching for the anchor. “Leave the place alone! Get the hell out!”

Paul D first encounters the ghost when he walked into “the door straight into a pool of red undulating light that locked him where he stood.” the ghost intensify when he touches Sethe’s beast hence its outburst.  The ghost becomes violent, shaking the entire house. Paul D tries to fight back, shouting loudly and smashing up parts of the house in the process. The rumbling stops the ghost’s presence can no longer be felt,  Paul D had vanquished the ghost or so they thought. Paul D was the only man left from “Sweet Home” and the ghost felt as though he may be there to take Sethe and Denver’s attention.  Paul D’s presence somehow allows this breakdown or violent out burst by the ghost its seems to intensify when men are around, only men have left because of if.  When Paul D asks why they don’t leave, Sethe is adamant she will not run from anything ever. Paul D was meant to be portrayed as a holy savior by getting rid of the ghost.

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