The women of the Bottom hate Sula because she is living criticism of their own dreadful lives of resignation. She refuses to settle for a woman's traditional lot of marriage, child raising, labor, and pain. As Morrison notes of her, "She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or compliments - no ego."įaced with a racist world and a sexist community, Sula defends herself by creating a life, however bizarre, that is rich and experimental. As flawed as Sula is, however, she never surrenders to falseness or falls into the trap of conventionality in order to keep up appearances or to be accepted by the community. Sula must experience events in order to reflect on them: She watches her mother burn, she commits her grandmother to a nursing home, and she has a sexual affair with her best friend's husband. Morrison tells us that Sula "had no center, no speck around which to grow" her life is like an open rainbow for experimental freedom that often touches the edges of danger. She often seems perpetually stuck in a kind of childlike impetuosity. ![]() She is not ruthless rather, she is spontaneous and unable to moderate or temper the sudden impact her actions might have on her community. ![]() Embodying freedom, adventure, curiosity, unpredictability, passion, and danger, Sula takes little from others and gives even less.
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