Up until the end of the novel, Milkman remains firm in his disbelief of the supernatural. When he is asking Freddie about how his mother died, he found the fact that she was killed by a ghost so absurd, he laughed in his face. Even though he meant no disrespect, “he couldn’t stop the laughter, and the more he tried, the more it came” (Morrison 110). He completely disregards the possibility that something supernatural could possibly exist in this world. He wants to stay sheltered in his personal safety bubble protected from the reality of his world. Even when Milkman sees “the figure of a man standing right behind” Guitar while they are stealing the bag with the skeleton in it, he simply ignores it believing “the moonlight was playing tricks