Beloved: Sethe and Her Daughter “It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim In the story “Beloved” by Toni Morrison there is the story of Sethe and her daughter ‘Beloved.’ Sethe is a proud and beautiful woman who escaped from slavery, yet is haunted by its heritage. She must deal with this haunted life on every level, from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. The story is set in the rural Ohio several years after the Civil War. "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave"(Morrison 1987). These are the words that Toni Morri