The Circularity in Beloved

Philip Page’s Article on “Circularity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” talks about the circularity in Beloved and how everything seems to never end. Some examples it gives are the way Sethe’s 124 house is surrounded by tons of other houses with black slaves who ran away and how this is circularity because while we focus on Sethe’s life we know that there are more people like her with their own stories, and new slaves are always born, some of which end up running away and move in to the same town where Sethe is. In a way its like a never ending circle of slavery and this is what Philip is trying to imply. Another example Philip gives us is when Sethe is trying to explain to Paul D why she killed the baby in the first place and she circled the subject trying to narrow it down to the answer, but only managed to say random words that weren't quite the answer. As she circled the subject she also circled Paul D walking around him in circles as if he was the answer she was trying to reach. The answer was in the middle of this imaginary circle that she went around and she tried to narrow this circle enough for Paul D to understand, which she managed to do when she said “ I took and put my babies where they’d be safe” (193). 
I never thought about the book as a circularity like Philip did because I was mostly focusing on Sethe’s story. It never came to me that Sethe was just one of many stories that other black slaves lived through and carried the burden of remembering, and I never thought of how this all seemed endless because the slaves had kids and these kids grew up to be slaves and the circle would go on and on. Occasionally some slaves managed to escape or buy their freedom and they would end up just like Sethe with horrible memories that they can never forget.