Toni Morrison's award winning novel, "Beloved" tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who had fled the south with her children and who now lived only with her daughter, Denver, as well as Beloved, the lingering ghost of her other daughter. As a baby, Beloved was killed, so that she would escape the horrors of slavery. At the outset of the novel, the reader comes to know about that the house where Sethe and Denver live has another soul residing within; the spiteful spirit of the murdered Beloved. "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom."  This very supernatural dimension of the novel pushes the limits of our ordinary understanding. This ghost is very evident throughout the novel. "The poltergeist haunting 124 is undeniably real, giving tangible proof of its existence; it turns over slop jars, causes sideboards to move, projects a paralysing pool of red light and envelopes the house in a cacophony of voices," says Carl D. Malmgren in his critical essay on Morrison's novel. The baby ghost represents the repressed at a personal level. "No more powerful than the way I loved her..." Sethe This shows that the family members portray the baby-ghost not as evil, but rather as angry, sad, lonely, and mistaken. Sethe understands the baby's anger and grieving, and guilt ridden she desires her daughter to return in order to explain her plight. As such, Beloved's haunting does not merely signify Sethe's personal repressed trauma of slavery and infanticide, but also a cultural or collective trauma and the imposition of layers of trauma on the present. Beloved's name signals this as well, since the motto of Beloved reads, "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." This biblical quote emphasizes the communal history and collective memory of a people. However the ghost is exorcised by Paul D.'s arrival. But Beloved is not so easily quieted and dismissed; as her sister Denver already antici