"Six times in as many days he abandoned his normal route and tried to knock at 124" (203). I find how Stamp Paid cannot bring himself to knock on the door of 124 peculiar. We learn that for his services, he is allowed to freely walk into a home without having to knock. It is something that he has done before many times and has never knocked. However, he feels a need to knock when he goes to Sethe's home after the attack.
After finally going, he begins to feel that he stayed away from 124 for too long. If he knew that he should have gone and visited Sethe, why did he have such a hard time going back. The text says that he went several times after trying to knock the first time.
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