The Character of Mr. Garner in Beloved In the book Beloved, Toni Morrison uses the character Mr. Garner to convey the different forms of slave owners. Although some seem that they are more considerate than others, they are all are still slave owners, and they are all cruel. Mr. Garner is a very insecure man with a lot of power. As a result of his insecurity, he feels that he has to prove his intelligence …showed first 75 words of 1467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1467 total…was not for him. This is what Morrison was trying to put that idea into the character of Mr. Garner. That he was just a very insecure man with a lot of power and he did not know what to do but to overcompensate and pretend that he was the nice guy, but in fact he was still a slave owner. No matter how you look at it, he was still mistreating those human beings.