(That’s a good thing.) Has Sula been shaped by the actions of her mother, Hannah? Of her grandmother, Eva Reread (I first read this in the late ‘80s.) As with The Bluest Eye, more questions come to mind after reading than do answers. Reread (I first read this in the late ‘80s.) In an essay in The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Morrison explains and discounts the first few pages of this book, the prologue, a “door” she calls it, something she hadn’t used in her first novel and wouldn’t in subsequent novels. Together, they create an unforgettable portrait of what it means and costs to be a black woman in America.more Eventually, both women must face the consequences of their choices. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel and a wanton seductress. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself in city life. Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community. Sula Peace has reje This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
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