When Paul D, Denver and Sethe first come upon Beloved resting against a tree after emerging from the water, the three cannot understand the past or present of the girl in front of them. Rather than interpret her odd actions, each of them looks to a physical aspect of Beloved to act as a key to her soul. Even as Beloved comes home to stay within the first chapter of her appearance, the family takes …
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…with the strange effect of picking up a rocking chair<an object<though Denver denies it with her lying eyes. Her shoes, her hat, her taste for sugar and Paul D's strange observation do not shed much light upon the strange character that is Beloved. Morrison's foray into her character's psyche leads the reader and the surrounding characters into the dark<her association with unmoving objects only solidifies her already strange existence.