A woman with whom Shevek, while posted to a job at an afforestation project in the desert region at eighteen years old, has a brief but intense sexual relationship. Beshun helps Shevek to see that two people can never really possess each other, even if the intensity of their feelings for one another lead them to believe that they can (a fittingly Anarresti notion).
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Beshun Character Timeline in The Dispossessed
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Chapter 2
Shevek embarks on a sexual relationship with a woman named Beshun. Eventually, Shevek’s rotation on the afforestation project comes to a close, and Shevek becomes emotional...
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...through the lens of owning or being owned. Shevek, who has recently broken up with Beshun, reflects on the lack of “proprietary idioms for the sexual act” in the Pravic language....
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