Perspectives in Literature

I enjoyed this book a lot more then i enjoyed the Passing and Of Mice and Men. I liked the style of writing of Morrison. This book was not boring at all. Maybe i liked the suspense in each death and how they died. For examples Plum’s death, who would have thought Eva would burn her own child? Not me. The only death that didn’t surprise me was Sula’s death. I was wondering how her death would be but i was kind of disappointed in the peaceful death she had, unlike most of the other characters they had painful deaths. What i didn’t like was how Nel realized after visiting Eva that she missed Sula more then she missed her husband. I don’t understand how Sula’s betrayal wouldn’t affect Nel’s affections towards her.

It is very believable that Sula became like her mother, a woman who likes to sleep around with other men. What did surprise me though was that she slept with Nel’s husband. I would have imagined that her friendship with her was a lot stronger then her sexual desires and fantasies. What could be going on through her mind that she wouldn’t realize that her friendship means more to her then men. Whatever pain she might be going through for losing a friend, she deserves. I feel like the birds symbolize the different deaths that involved Sula in her life. And when her grandmother said “I might have know them bird meant something…”(91)

Nel on the other hand is very hurt by this event. She is not so much hurt for having her husband be unfaithful as much as not having someone close to her, like Sula, to have to talk to about the situation. Although she lost both her husband and her “dear old friend” she wants to survive for her kids. I was not surprised Jude was unfaithful, there was something in me that said he would be. Who knows if he did it once maybe he had done it before in the past but with different woman, of course.