Ten years later, she mysteriously and unexpectedly returns to the Bottom, but it is immediately clear that she still has the fiery personality she had before she left she still does the unexpected.Īnd she does more she does the unthinkable: She places her grandmother, Eva, the family’s strong and domineering matriarch, in a nursing home, and she has a brief sexual affair with Nel’s husband, Jude. When Nel marries, Sula leaves the Bottom and goes to Tennessee, where she attends college for an unspecified amount of time. Sula is impulsive, daring, and independent Nel, in contrast, obediently does what is expected of her. Sula Nel and Sula are best friends even though they have completely opposite personalities. Sula also explores the life of Nel, Sula’s best friend. And how the strong female relationships between the novel’s women and bonds both nurture and threaten individual female identity. Introduction Sula, focuses on a young black girl named Sula, who matures into a strong and determined woman in the face of adversity and the distrust, even hatred, of her by the black community in which she lives. In 2002, scholar MolefiKete Asante listed Toni Morrison on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

Among the best known are her novels “The Bluest Eye”, “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. A Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor.Born Chloe AnthonyWofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio.

Sula by Toni Morrison