d while alive, but was also lynched during Sethe's childhood. Although Sethe is impacted by the loss of her mother, she does not feel completely abandoned in the world due to the deep bond she has with Nan. This mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and Na Na is seen in the following quote, "My woman? You mean my mother? If she did, I don't remember. I didn't see her but a few times out in the fields and once when she was working indigo. By the time I woke up in the morning, she was in line. If the moon was bright they worked by its light. Sunday she slept like a stick. She must of nursed me two or three weeks-that's the way the others did. Then she went back in rice and I sucked from another woman whose job it was. So to answer you, no. I reckon not" (Morrison 60). Sethe's recollection of her foster mother does not conclude here, but continues as she further reflects on her relationship, or lack thereof, with her biological mother. This observance can be witnessed in the subsequent lines, "Nan was the one she knew best, who
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