Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Part 3: Chapter 28

Beloved disintegrates into nothingness, thereby opening the way to wholeness for Sethe. Gossips forget her over time. Sethe and Denver gradually heal from their harrowing battle with the tireless, vindictive ghost. The sound of a skirt rustling sometimes reminds the family of Beloved's tenure at 124. Footprints come and go at creek side. Eventually, Beloved, like the wind or spring thaw, is "disremembered and unaccounted for."

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