Sula And Nel Friendship Essay

Platonic love is something that Nel and Sula share together. That being said true friendship will at times provide immense comfort although it also leaves you vulnerable to great emotional pain. This is shown to the reader throughout Toni Morrison's novel Sula. Through the two women's lifelong friendship they struggle through family difficulties and emotional trouble together which brings them together as lifelong friends. It shows us the power that friendship has in life and when a close friend leaves, whether to a new city or through death, sometimes it feels as if a part of you has gone with them too due to the rarity of a true platonic connection. Friends are truly the only family that you get to choose and this is evidently clear in Sula. Sula and Nel friendship runs deep within them allowing them to find solace in somebody else who understands the troubles that they face daily. They gain comfort in knowing that they both have somebody who they can fully trust in their chaotic lives within the bottom. As soon as they meet they connect akin to old friends, "So when they met, first in those chocolate halls and next through the ropes of the swing, they felt the ease

Sula and Nel’s pseudo kinship is no different though they both feel distanced after the affair, in death Sula finds herself saying, “ ‘Well, I'll be damned,’ she thought, ‘it didn't even hurt. Wait'll I tell Nel’ “(149) Though they may have had their differences in the end Sula has an unbreakable connection with Nel. Even as Nel leaves Sula to die in her bed, Sula still thinks about Nel in death as she awaits her friend post life. This speaks to their friendship throughout their life and the bond that they have formed throughout the years, although their friendship seems to fade at the end due to the affair Sula’s final thought in life or her first thought in death is of Nel, patiently awaiting their