Existentialism and Seethe

[Cole]

This book injects fear into the protagonists’ vulnerable veins, and, while terror-stricken, damns them unto a cage filled with ghosts, metaphorically symbolizing thus: the burden of memories. Indeed, Toni Morrison has taken the philosophical view of existentialism (the burden and anguish of everyday existence, all all variables that fall into the non-sensical algorithm). And, for example, we read of Seethe in a house of ghosts, and, even when given a chance to leave the terror, she says nay. The reason? She says nay due to the memories tied to the house, the soil and the ghosts.
Seethe is an ignorant woman who is too inhibited by the past to see straight. She is a woman who refuses the existential philosophy, for that say to move forward in times of trouble. But she stays put.
And even when she had the thought to leave, and create a new life, a new problem surfaces. And of course: it lay rooted in the past.