Did Baby Suggs Choke Sethe

Once Sethe got there, Baby Suggs took care of her, bathed her, and bandaged her. … Now, at the Clearing, Sethe goes to Baby Suggs’ old preaching rock and wishes Baby Suggs were there to rub her neck. Suddenly, she feels invisible fingers massaging her neck. But then, the fingers begin to choke her.

Who Assaulted Sethe in Beloved?

At Sweet Home Sethe is brutally assaulted by young white men, with “one sucking on [her] breast the other holding [her] down” (Morrison, 1987, p. 86). Her assault by these young men and the violence she faced during her years as a slave left with Sethe with a ‘tree’ on her back and a severe reliance on her children.

What does Denver think happened to Sethe in the clearing?

Back in the Clearing (in the present), Sethe thinks that she’d be better if she could just feel Baby Suggs’s fingers on her back one more time. All of a sudden, she does feel fingers on her back. … Denver sees Sethe choking and cries out. Immediately, the strangling stops.