Sethe’s act of infanticide results in her damaging her remaining daughter, Denver mentally, who now fears her mother rather than feeling for her. The girl feels desolate and often disconnected from her loved ones, especially as she feels troubled by her mother’s actions even though she values her mother’s motherly behavior. The young girl asserts that “I love my mother but I know she killed one of her own daughters, and as tender as she is with me, I’m scared of her because of it. She missed killing my brothers and they knew it. They told me die-witch stories…” (242) Denver loves her mother very dearly, even though she has taken the life of Beloved and also tries to slay her; however, Denver also asserts the fact that she is also afraid of
