In Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sethe describes two places, a plantation she worked at as a slave, known as Sweet Home, and her home, 124 Bluestone Road, which is haunted by Sethe's dead daughter, Beloved. In her first descriptions of 124, Sethe uses language to that shows the miserable conditions of living in a haunted house, and there are no images that display the good in 124. In her descriptions of Sweet Home, Sethe uses language to show the evil in the plantation, but also uses language that tells readers Sethe appreciated the beauty of the place, and some of the feelings it left her with. Considering the symbolic meaning of both places, it is very ironic that Sethe recognizes the evil rather than the good of 124 Bluestone Road, and both good and evil in Sweet Home.
             The first description of Sethe's home,124 Bluestone Road, show the reader that it is neither a secure or safe place to live. The first paragraph in Beloved uses words such as, 'spiteful', 'venom', and 'disturbed' (p.1) to describe 124 Bluestone Road. The images first perceived of this house is that it is haunted. Readers are even told of how some of Sethe's children have run away to escape the house and the ghost that lives in it. "...the sons...had run away by the time they were thirteen years old-as soon as...a mirror shattered...as soon as two tiny hand prints appeared in the cake." (p.1) This quote is meant to show the presence of a ghost in 124 Bluestone Road, and it's effects on the residents of the house. The effects of the ghost were incredibly haunting on Sethe's sons, who left their family, "at once...in the dead of winter."(p.1) The boys were obviously quite frightened if they left so suddenly, and in freezing weather. The frightening mental picture of 124 Bluestone Road a!
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