Full Of A Baby's Spirits Analysis

Ghosts are often thought of as intimidating and potentially dangerous beings. Beings that one would not want occupying their home. Beloved begins with a description of the ghost of 124 Bluestone Rd: “Full of a baby's venom” (Morrison 1). The reader is told the ghost is a baby within the first two sentences. Sethe and Denver, mother and daughter, and the only two who live in the house, try to live with the ghost by doing their best to not anger it. Readers are told that in the past, they attempted to hold a seance to reason with the baby's ghost and ask for it to be less destructive. To anyone else, Sethe and Denver insist they know the ghost's intentions and why it does what it does (smash plates, leave trails of crumbs, and leave fingerprints