Section II Beloved

Through the stream of consciousness technique, the thoughts of these characters are greatly clarified. As a result of this clarification, Morrison has drawn a fine line between the appearance of these characters, and their individual identites. It is this line which shifts the reader away from the previous 3rd person narration (which has apparently casted shadows on these characters' emotions.) In all three narrations, Sethe, Beloved and Denver, the reader is given a lens through each of the 3 women. Upon reading Section II of Beloved, it appears as if Denver is the most sympathetic character. The reader can infer from Sethe's and Beloved's narrations that their thoughts and actions are compromised: Sethe is desperate while Beloved is possesive. the extremes of these two women have placed Denver in a difficult situation, wherein she fears her mother and cannot fully understand her sister, "She said the ghost was after Ma'm and her too for not doing anything to stop it. I just had to watch out for it. . . And I do. Love her, (242)." Admittedly, Denver's naivity leads her to believe Beloved, on some level, is meant for her only, "She is mine (242)." However, the decline and shift in power between Sethe and Beloved later in the novel reveals Denver's opinions to likely be false. Given Denver's age, her naivity is excuseable. That being said, the narration's most important effect is its unveiling of Denver as the character least reactive to Beloved (at least the one with the most sensible reaction).