Sula: Part Two
1. What is the response of the people of the Bottom to evil? What is the implied motive for such a response?
2. How does Sula's amorality affect the people of the Bottom? (Note especially p. 2046)
3. What is Sula's effect on Nel while they are friends?
4. Given the description at the bottom of p. 2039, how does Sula define "love"?
5. How is Nel's grief and despair pictured after she catches Jude and Sula together? For what is she grieving?
6. What does Sula's brief love affair with Ajax show about her? Why does Ajax abandon her?
7. What does the narrator portray as Sula's "reason" for betraying Nel? (2047)
8. In the end of the story, Morrison seems to indicate that unforgiveness is the greatest evil. What shows this unforgivingness, and what affects does it have on those who inhabited the Bottom?