Journal 20: Sula
The focus of this chapter is on the various evils of society as well as social inequalities in society. The chapter also makes a reflection of the various relationships between families, friends, African Americans, and the Whites in addition to the relationship between men and women as depicted between Sula and Jude.
The most important point made in this chapter is about Sula’s character. Sula had snatched Nel’s husband Jude and slept with him. It is also apparent that Sula slept casually with the White men which depict her as an unpleasant, obnoxious, irritating, and evil character. The author says that Sula always slept with men in the town. This is important because by deciding to sleep with Jude, Sula becomes can only be described as a betrayal to Nel as they are both inseparable friends yet Sula has no control or compassion for her deeds.
The interesting is to know that Sula unlike many of the women of her age she did not have any signs of aging. The author says” Among the weighty evidence piling up was the fact that Sula did not look her age. She was near Thirty and unlike them she had no lost tooth, suffered bruises, developed no ring of fat at her waist or pocket at the back of her neck”(pg,115). She never was never even attacked by common diseases in her childhood. Even when she took beer she never belched. These descriptions of Sula are not only strange but also interesting. This shows that Sula had been able to maintain her beauty and she looked gracious perhaps explaining the reason why she slept with so many men who were not her husbands.
The question to ask is it that people did not believe in Eva being put into Sunnydale?