How does Morrison use a stream-of-consciousness technique in the novel Beloved??
podunc Teacher College – Sophomore eNotes Editor You ask for a summary of the novel, and enotes has a good one: http://www.enotes.com/pride/themes As for your question, Morrison uses a stream-of-consciousness technique at a crucial point in the novel. Most of the time, the novel has a third-person narrator who views the events that take place from the outside. In Part Two, however, Morrison breaks from this narrative technique and allows her three main female characters to speak for themselves. Sethe speaks first on pages 200-204, Denver speaks on pages 205-209, Beloved speaks on 210-213, and all three women speak from pages 214-217. Morrison’s style changes dramatically in this section, as she creates fluid lines of thought (stream-of consciousness) from three unique individuals rather than telling a linear story of events. Beloved’s chapter is the most disjointed, as she seems to be telling a story of the middle passage, something she could not have known about if she is really Sethe
