Sula at least wholly claims her life, including its failure, while others deny their human connections in favor of simpler, safer ways.” (Carmean 159), Carmean appears to make an accurate statement. Sula is a character who acts as she pleases, what can be considered a more wholesome life than that? While the people of the Bottom are fastened into their traditional roles, Sula is unburdened from responsibilities. She is free. Morrison’s lead character, Sula demonstrates how a person can live a life liberated from expectations opposed to being trapped by societal standards.
In some ways Sula Peace lives the purest life of all Morrison’s Characters. Morrison describes Sula’s unique comportment, “She was completely free of ambition, with no
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One-legged Eva jumped from a second story window, Mr. and Mrs. Suggs helped to extinguished the fire, the neighbors called an ambulance, but Sula just stood and watched. It could’ve just been a case of shock but Eva believes otherwise thinking, “Sula had watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested” (Morrison ). It is difficult to know for sure why Sula didn’t attempt to save her mother but it could very well be that she was fascinated by the entire thing. That isn’t to say that Sula didn’t like her mother, but she did enjoy to watch. We know Sula is an empathetic person because of the guilt she feels about Chicken Little’s death and how she cries at his funeral QUOTE. Sula also inherits her mother’s unmarried lifestyle so she likely see’s Hannah as a good role model. Some of Sula’s actions, while not widely accepted, can be justified by her unique character, such as her affair with Jude. “sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable” (Morrison ), from a young age, Hannah’s sexual habits have rubbed off onto Sula. Sula is under the impression that sleeping around with numerous men is normal. Sula has no intention of harming Nel by sleeping with Jude. “‘Well there was this space in front of me, behind me, in my head. Some space. And Jude filled it up. That’s all. He just filled up the space.’” (Morrison ), Sula only sees men as the means to an end, nothing more, nothing