In the novel Sula, by Toni Morrison, the title character Sula is morally ambiguous because her ideas of “good” and “bad” do not match up with the rest of society’s opinions. She follows the moral examples of her untraditional family, and lives her adult life applying these skewed morals.
In Morrison’s novel, Sula grows up with her mother, Hannah, and her grandmother, Eva. As a young girl, Sula witnesses her mother having casual sex with her friend’s husbands, borders, and other men in the town. In the Peace household, sex is meaningless and often. Sula eventually enters into an intense childhood friendship with Nel Wright. Nel grows up in a household run on practicality and stability, contrary to Sula’s. Nel’s family modeled a steady marriage,