Home. A home is not always a building, sometimes it is a person or a feeling that makes a person feel warmth within themselves. Toni Morrison’s (Beloved) uses plot and style to demonstrate to us that a place we might call a house is no the same place where we might feel at home. Throughout the life story of Sethe in the book Beloved, Morrison demonstrates how it is that even if anyone has lived in the same place for many years it may never feel like home but just a house.
In the beginning Morrison uses personification to clarify that coming home can be more negative than positive. For example, at the very beginning of the book she begins by describing the house: “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and …show more content…
Within two months, in the dead of winter, leaving their grandmother, Baby Suggs; Sethe, their mother; and their little sister, Denver, all by themselves in the gray and white house on Bluestone Road. It didn’t have a number then, because Cincinnati didn’t stretch that far.”(Morrison 1). Morrison is trying to explains to us that the house was not very welcome to man, as a matter of fact it did everything in its power to make them leave. The one man who decided to move in had a terrible experience in that house, for example after super when Paul D was trying to find a place to sleep he looked everywhere until, “He believed he was having house-fits, the glassy anger men sometimes feel when a woman's house begins to bind them, when they want to yell and break something or at least run off. He knew all about that—felt it lots of times—in the Delaware weaver's house, for instance. But always he associated the house-fit with the woman in it. This nervousness had nothing to do with the woman […] Also in this house-fit there was no anger, no suffocation, no yearning to be elsewhere. He just could not, would not, sleep upstairs or in the rocker or, now, in Baby Suggs' bed. So, he went to the storeroom.”(Morrison 115). Toni Morrison put this in the story to help us realize that Paul D, the only other man who has lived in that place, feels like her can not be comfortable and safe in a place he now calls a “home.” Morrison also uses foreshadowing when the house is “attacking” Sethe, “Paul D… followed her through the door straight into a pool of red and undulating light that locked him where he
In the beginning Morrison uses personification to clarify that coming home can be more negative than positive. For example, at the very beginning of the book she begins by describing the house: “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and …show more content…
Within two months, in the dead of winter, leaving their grandmother, Baby Suggs; Sethe, their mother; and their little sister, Denver, all by themselves in the gray and white house on Bluestone Road. It didn’t have a number then, because Cincinnati didn’t stretch that far.”(Morrison 1). Morrison is trying to explains to us that the house was not very welcome to man, as a matter of fact it did everything in its power to make them leave. The one man who decided to move in had a terrible experience in that house, for example after super when Paul D was trying to find a place to sleep he looked everywhere until, “He believed he was having house-fits, the glassy anger men sometimes feel when a woman's house begins to bind them, when they want to yell and break something or at least run off. He knew all about that—felt it lots of times—in the Delaware weaver's house, for instance. But always he associated the house-fit with the woman in it. This nervousness had nothing to do with the woman […] Also in this house-fit there was no anger, no suffocation, no yearning to be elsewhere. He just could not, would not, sleep upstairs or in the rocker or, now, in Baby Suggs' bed. So, he went to the storeroom.”(Morrison 115). Toni Morrison put this in the story to help us realize that Paul D, the only other man who has lived in that place, feels like her can not be comfortable and safe in a place he now calls a “home.” Morrison also uses foreshadowing when the house is “attacking” Sethe, “Paul D… followed her through the door straight into a pool of red and undulating light that locked him where he