In Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula (1973), the reader follows the life of Sula Peace through her childhood in the 1920’s, until her death in 1941. Sula’s interactions with the surrounding characters play a profound role in the constant development of their emotions. It seems that Sula’s controversial relationships, especially between her grandmother Eva, her best-friend Nel, and Jude, accentuate feelings of fear, even in herself. In turn, the characters are forced to either cope …showed first 75 words of 1500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1500 total…the accident, always fearing an unexpected death of her own. Rita Bergenholtz, a well-known critic of Morrison’s works, is accurate when she claims that; “many of the major characters struggle to extract an ordered meaning from the events in their lives…where their fear causes their own self-destruction” (5). The feelings of fear that Sula instigates, comes back to instill a certain type of fear in Sula, one of not having a purpose in life.