Stillness In Sula And Beloved

becoming of a Southern white woman. Here, she is expected to be meek and passive because of the trouble that is present. Sethe’s gender performance, as Gender Analysis in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sula, suggest that Morrison proposes “a new gender model” which “challenges the cultural construction of gender roles” (Ali 1421). Ali states, Sethe’s way of looking signifies “the traditional values associated with the white male suppression” (Ali 1421). Therefore, Sethe’s act of “looking” demonstrates her looking danger in the face.
Mayfield argues that “Sethe was described by people who knew her as a woman of remarkable stillness” (Mayfield 5). Her stillness indicates a symbol of power and her “ability to be calm and deliberate in difficult