Beloved

When Stamp offers information on Sethe being jailed for Beloved's death to Paul D, he beings to realize the reality of everything that has been going on in that house. He doesn't want to believe that such a terrible thing would happen. Especially when a mother's duty is to love and care for her children. There is a lot of things going on at this moment in time, in which the truth begins to surface on such an important piece of information. Once Paul D confronts Sethe with the information from Stamp, she begins to break down. The trauma of her childs death begins to bring back horrid memories. Sethe was never fit to be a mother. There are responsibilities that come along with being a mother. One has to begin to devote their lives to another human being to make sure of it's survival. "If you ain't got nothing but milk to give em, well they don't do things so quick. Milk was all I ever had" (Morrison 187). This goes back to the fact that all she could be was something physical and nothing more.