Psychotic Mother and Psychoanalytic Daughter

"Denver stood on the bottom step and was suddenly hot and shy. It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher, speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. For twelve years, long before Grandma Baby died, there had been no visitors of any sort and certainly no friends. No coloredpeople. Certainly no hazelnut man with too long hair and no notebook, no charcoal, no oranges, no questions. Someone her mother wanted to talk to and would even consider talking to while barefoot. Looking, in fact acting, like a girl instead of the quiet, queenly woman Denver had known all her life. The one who never looked away, who when a man got stomped to death by a mare right in front of Sawyer's restaurant did not look away; and when a sow began eating her own litter did not look away then either. And when the baby's spirit picked up Here Boy and slammed him into the wall hard enough to break two of his legs and dislocate his eye, so hard he went into convulsions and chewed up his tongue, still her mother had not looked away. She had taken a hammer, knocked the dog unconscious, wiped away the blood and saliva, pushed his eye back in his head and set his leg bones. He recovered, mute and off-balance, more because of his untrustworthy eye than his bent legs, and winter, summer, drizzle or dry, nothing could persuade him to enter the house again."
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This passage defines several feelings encountered by Denver. It seems as if Denver is depressed and internally broken. However, Sethe wanted to "fix" her, and distance her from the darkness that cloaked Denver.

It's debatable that Denver's broken soul is inherited from her mother. The mother who "never looked away, who when a man got stomped to death by a mare right in front of Sawyer's restaurant did not look away; and when a sow began eating her own litter did not look away then either. And when the baby's spirit picked up Here Boy and slammed him into the wall hard enough to break two of his legs and dislocate his eye, so hard he went into convulsions and chewed up his tongue, still her mother had not looked away." Did these horrendous events and over-controlling mother, cause Denver to break? The very mother who "had taken a hammer, knocked the dog unconscious, wiped away the blood and saliva, pushed his eye back in his head and set his leg bones", is the one who gave birth to a daughter. On a psychoanalytical level, we're able to see who Denver really is. Is Denver the sweet-hearted, caring, daughter that greets Paul D? Or is Denver the twisted, internally ruined daughter who inherited darkness from her mother. Is Denver's darkness caused by the fact that she and her mother are alone, especially since "there had been no visitors of any sort and certainly no friends [for 12 years]"? Is Denver depressed enough, that she feeds on her mother's darkness? 

From the passage above, we're unsure about who Denver is internally ; however, we are able to infer that Sethe is broken. Sethe feels pain, darkness, and alone. From a psychoanalytical standpoint, we know Sethe is a dark character, scarred by oppression.