" Here Boy could sense that Beloved was the ghost and didn't want to be hurt again. Also, at the end of the book when Beloved was already gone, Here Boy returned. .
One of Paul D's biggest questions about Beloved was her skin. Her skin was like "new skin, lineless and smooth, including the knuckles of her hands". Most women in that time had lined, callused, scarred hands by the time they were nineteen-the scarring from playing when they were children and lines and calluses from the housework. The crawling already? girl died when she was one with baby new skin. It didn't have the time to become spoiled by labor and play. .
Beloved also had trouble keeping her head up. She would, "[rest] her head in the palm of her hand as though it were too heavy for her neck alone." When Sethe killed the baby girl, she held its head up because she had cut so deeply, it almost severed the girl's head. If the Beloved were the ghost, she would have great troubles holding her head up because her neck had been severed. .
When a person dies, certain things happen to their bodies. For instance, they become very cold because the heart is no longer pumping blood through the body. All the blood stops, and settles therefore cooling off. Also, bodies become very dehydrated because there aren't any more fluids being ingested, that would describe why when Beloved arrives, and she is very cold and drinks a lot of water. An explanation of her dehydration and coldness is that she had been dead. .
When Beloved first arrived, Denver insisted on taking care of her. And one discovery that Denver made was that she thought Beloved was incontinent because she would defecate in her bed. However, there is another explanation besides incontinence. The crawling already? girl died when she was one. The baby girl didn't have time to become potty trained. Because Beloved was the ghost, she only had the knowledge that the crawling already? girl had when she died, and that knowledge did not include being potty trained.