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The interior monologue is a device used often by Morrison throughout “Beloved,” particularly in chapter 22, where the reader is allowed to experience Beloved’s own thoughts and desires. This stream of consciousness is Beloved’s thought process, the thought process of a ghost who’s perspective differs greatly from that of any other character in the book. Beloved’s stream of consciousness is characterized by lack of punctuation and reads very broken. “I am not dead   I sit  the sun close my eyes   when I open them I see the face I lost   Sethe’s is the face that left me   Sethe sees me see her and I see the smile   her smiling face is the place for me   it is the face I lost” While this passage is abstract, the reader is able to define it through context and understand the visual impressions Beloved’s fragmented thoughts create. Using stream of consciousness to characterize Beloved helps the reader associate with the feelings of an abstract personality, one that is distant and beyond our comprehension.