Consider the foundation America has been built upon. Years of oppression, slavery and abuse have culminated into a present day state of willful ignorance. Calling attention to this culture, Toni Morrison develops the concept of “re-memory” and “dis-remembering." The last two pages of the novel, however, seem to muster a sense of misdirection and reminiscence. Morrison strays from storytelling to a fragmented anecdote. By analyzing the structure and meaning of this particularly thought provoking ending, the overall meaning of the novel is conveyed in an unconventional manner. The ending of Beloved can at best be described as ambiguous due to it’s fragmented structure. Seeming to be a contradiction, the ending is incomplete, leaving the reader with no reassurance or closure. Acting as an “open-ended ending”, this forces the reader to create his or her own justified response. Written in a fragmentary fashion, an underlying meaning unfolds within the structure of the sentences and paragraphs. The fragmented structure is in direct relation to the style Morrison conveys throughout the novel, especially the last page. Exemplifying the consciousness of each character and weaving between past and future, the ending becomes increasingly abstruse. More time is spent describing past events in these last pages than descriptions of the current moment. This begins to reinforce the notion that the past is always haunting, still shaping life in the present. The novel to this point is often repetitive, telling the same stories repeatedly whilst giving more information with each repetition. “It was not a story to pass on” (323). Although Beloved's story, according to the narrator, is not a story to pass on, the novel performs exactly that action. The past must be dealt with in a healthy way. The thought of the dead remaining dead, and the relationship between the characters and their past is allowed to become more manageable in thes