The Color Red in Morrison's Beloved Anonymous Beloved. Toni Morrison uses the color red in multiple ways in her novel Beloved. On one hand red is a symbol of vibrancy and life, often revealing life in unexpected places. It also symbolizes pain and death, though death does not signify absence in a book.
Character Analysis Baby Suggs Function: Baby Suggs is the healer in the story, bringing out the hope and goodness of the people in the family. She’s the only one who died in bed peacefully. She served as the center of everything: she brought life to 124 and made it feel like a warm and lively home. She was the only one with color.
In Beloved, Toni Morrison uses Sethe’s increasingly toxic relationship with Beloved to represent the way the past affects her; Sethe’s many traumatic experiences as a slave color the way she interacts with others, and serve to emphasize how slavery can change a person’s view of their own self-worth.
Usually, Beloved is the one asking Sethe a bunch of questions. But here, it's the opposite. And what do we get? An enigma, sure, but also a possible alternative explanation of Beloved's origins. Compare this account with Stamp Paid's suggestion that Beloved is a runaway girl who was locked up in a house by a whiteman (25.87).