Set in the years after the Civil War, the novel recounts a family story, in which emotional relationships are established among its members. The analysis of the family relations presented in the novel is dominated by a sense of survival that permeates each of the characters; especially Sethe-the mother, who, as ex-runaway slave, clings to what she has got, is not ready to let it go. The novel, set in the free state of Ohio and the slave state of Kentucky, relates the true story of the infanticide slave Margaret Garner. She killed her daughter rather than giving her away to slavery. The sequence of events is non-chronological. The novel is all about Sethe’s recuperation of a past that she has attempted to forget. Memory plays a pivotal role in Beloved, not only in that is used as a mode of narration, but in being what the novel is about. Dealing with memory is what the characters mainly do. The process of the novel corresponds to Sethe’s repossession of her most repressed memory. The recollection works as a healing ritual. The experience of slavery and the infanticide had been eradicated by Sethe’s will to move on, by a wish to forget something too weighty to be remembered. The presence of the baby ghost in 124 Bluestone Road house is a sign of Sethe’s past still possessing her present. What the woman refuses to remember chains her and her daughter Denver to an impossible life. Isolated from the rest of the community Sethe’s and Denver’s present is possessed as well as their future.