Section II Narration

Narration from Sethe is almost what I was expecting with her haunted past and ways of mentally dodging her "rememories." She is harshly lying to herself about the negatives in her world by focusing on what could be positive in it. Beloved's mere existence has brought Sethe to the conclusion that she shouldn't feel bad about a number of negatives she had brought upon not only Beloved, but Baby Suggs, the town, her other children, and most of all herself. No woman or man could go on the way Sethe does on a day to day basis after going through the horrid things she has gone through without lying to herself about the outcome and the meaning. She is a master of repression and denial as well as a visionary for making her world seem better than it is. Tools necessary for someone with her past and no one to lean on.