In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, there are many characters mentioned in the book. Some of the main characters are mentioned throughout the whole story while other supporting characters are only mentioned once or twice. They all play a key role in the plot formation though some more than others. This novel has a lot of twists and turns that take place and the characters in the novel allow that to happen. The one character which most of the events revolves around and makes the story interesting is Sethe. Her decisions and actions throughout the novel help one scene lead into the next, which makes Sethe a major character in the novel. In this paper I intend to show Sethe is not only considered a main character that helps each scene lead into the next but was also instrumental in the major plot of the death of her baby Beloved.
             In the beginning of the book Sethe flashes back on how she meet her husband Halle. She was lucky to find Halle in her life because he fathered all her children. Sethe says, "When he asked her to be his wife, Sethe happily agreed and then was stuck not knowing the next step. There should be a ceremony, shouldn't there? A Preacher, some dancing a party, a something" (16). Sethe makes the decision to marry Halle. Halle is the father of Sethe's four children. She goes off into the cornfields with Halle after they are married and that is where Denver is conceived. This choice that Sethe makes is key because it leads into the next major scene of how Denver is born into the story.
             Sethe is walking barefoot through the woods pregnant and battered, she was running away from the torture that she was put through as a slave. She is about to give
             up when all of a sudden a white woman appears named Amy Denver. Amy asked what she was doing and Sethe replied "running" (30). Morrison quotes "But she could not, would not, stop, for when she did the little antelope rammed...