Blog #12: Ending of Sula
April 12, 2007
mich119
I did not mind reading the novel, Sula. I actually found it interesting to read. The ending of the novel seemed to be bittersweet. Sula had died; however, Nel was able to mourn the loss of her best friend even though she had such resentment towards her. Since Sulla had cheated with Nel’s husband, I did not blame Nel for feeling such anger and hatred towards Sula during those years that they did not talk. If I was Nel, I would have been extremely disappointed in not only my husband, but probably towards my best friend the most. A spouse is one thing, but to have your best friend do something like that to you is even worse. That is something friends should never do because men may come and go but a best friend is always supposed to be there for you and never let you down. Sula clearly let Nel down. I was shocked, yet happy, to read that Nel was able to mourn the loss of her best friend. I can not imagine how hard this must have been for Sula. This shows that Nel is the bigger person. I was glad to see that she had forgiven Sula for everything she had done. Nel realized she had loved Sula more than anything and I feel that she looked up to her to a certain extent, in which she refused to think about until Sula had become extremely ill. Unlike Nel who had struggled her whole life to gain social acceptance, she had realized that Sula had always refused this concept. Although I do not agree with the lifestyle Sula chose to live, she certainly did what she wanted to make herself happy. In the end, I think Toni Morrison left the novel with so many questions because she wanted, we, the readers, to think about the different situations that have occurred through out the story. It is left to us to think about why the characters acted the way they did.
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Alex T. | April 13, 2007 at 8:09 pm
“That is something friends should never do because men may come and go but a best friend is always supposed to be there for you.”
I think that was Sula’s point, although she probably could have found a better way of saying than with sleeping with Jude. Sula probably just didn’t think of itit being that important to Nel, because in her mind Jude is just a guy. Obviously Nel doesn’t see it that way and understandbly so.
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literaturer | April 16, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I kind of see where you’re coming from in criticizing Sula’s actions, obviously, it was wrong. But I think that nel placing the blame entirely on Sula was wrong too. It was Jude’s choice to abandon his family, not Sula’s. Jude should have been loyal to his wife, and I think he deserves more blame than Nel atttributed to him. Also, I think Alex raised a good point in his comment. Sula was rasied differently than Nel. I don;t think she understands that sleeping with somebody else’s husband is entirely wrong. Her mom was sleeping with different guys all the time, and I don’t think she thought that it was a big deal.
Like I said, I do think that Sula was wrong, but I think that she does have a viewpoint that needs to be seen, and that there was a negative side to Nel’s reaction.
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alyssa708 | April 30, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I definatly agree with this because I am 100% about not doing things like that to best friends! I do feel as if Nel needs to blame her husband a little more too than she does. In this though I do not think Sula thought it was that big of a deal, because her mother always did it, and then she followed in her mothers footsteps. O man I am glad not to have a cheap whore for a mother!