"Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name."
This quotes is especially eerie when trying to figure what it actually is saying. I analyze this through the psychoanalytic lense, which helped me make sense of why it is such an important part of the book.
To begin with, this book is mostly about how the past keeps haunting everyone and hoe it never seems to go away. The character, of Beloved, is a reminder and step closer that Toni Morrison took to help us relate it back to the reader. At points we as a reader do feel like we are walking in their shoes,, but sometimes we get lost. In order for our minds to understand better, this last line, makes us really think of what we just read and what psychoanalytically is happening. This specific line lets us see that eve though we may think that we have known someone for a longtime, we actually don't know much about them. Recalling old memories, is like trying to put pieces of shredded paper back together. This process lets the reader know that everything that just happened, is now being questioned. Its now being questioned even more because Beloved has gone away. These realizations most of the time only come after letting go of our past. It is a way for us to never take anything for granted and that all things come to an end.
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