Conclusion of the novel beloved by toni morrison
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BELOVED
CONCLUSION
The ending of "Beloved" is surely one for the books. I think about it each day and because of that I try to figure out the greater meaning that Morrison tries to get at. I feel as if Morrison ends the novel in an unsatisfactory way because the majority of the novel takes place in the past rather than the now and by the end of the novel, Morrison barely addresses the future and when she does, she doesn't end the novel in a happy manner. For starters, we can't say for sure that Paul D and Sethe are going to live happily ever because Morrison then explains about how the town completely forgets about what happened with Beloved in the last chapter. She pretty much stops talking about Sethe at this point as if she doesn't matter anymore! And in my defense Beloved can't actually be called beloved anymore because no one even remembers her enough to love her; at funerals people say "Dearly Beloved". Instead, she becomes this nameless thing that's just there, who doesn't haunt Sethe or 124, which is seen with the arrival of Here Boy. Maybe that's why Beloved disappears because she obtained her goal of spiritually killing Sethe as Sethe did to her. To be honest I'm still fuzzy about the whole thing because there are so many ways to interpret the ending. But Maybe Morrison did it for a reason, to show the reader that life isn't all rainbows and sunshine, that sometimes it can be dark and ominous.