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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy deals with the cure of smallpox and several characters’ traumas. Vaark, Rebekka, and Sorrow suffer from smallpox, so Lina and the blacksmith use different treatments from their complex ethnic heritage to cure them. Despite of their different approaches to the disease, they use similar talking cure practices. Morrison also emphasizes the recovery of the two traumatic female characters, Sorrow and Florens. Sorrow who suffers from various psychic disorders overcomes her madness to find a way for her second child’s survival. Florens, who has an unforgettable abandonment trauma, and has a devastating affair with the blacksmith writes her way into clarity by inscribing mysterious letters in a room of Vaark’s grand house with a nail. Depicting the complex treatment of psychic and physical diseases and trauma, Morrison emphasizes that the complete survivals of main characters lie in the different but mixed treatment of root doctor-like characters, the realization of motherhood, and the acquisition of clarity by writing unspeakable trauma.