After Sula sleeps with Jude her and Nel are no longer friends. When Sula sleeps with Jude, a direct conflict between their different conceptions of evil surfaces. Sula feels no shame, because her conception of evil includes only actions not directed towards friendship, while her sleeping with Jude was an attempt at forming a friendship. However, Nel feels quite hurt, because Sula "had no thought at all of causing Nel pain when she bedded down with Jude" (Morrison 119). Whereas before "they had always shared the affection of other people" (Morrison 119), things have changed since they parted their separate ways. Nel had just gotten married, while Sula left for the city. During this period their views grew farther apart and constant, as Sula became promiscuous and rebellious, Nel adopted society's morals. “Sula becomes a pariah precisely because she rejects those values that aim at uniformity and stifle the self” (Library book 34). Sula begins to sleep with other women’s husbands and discarding them after she is done with them. “Having dared to smash the taboos that are her neighbors’ poor guarantees of simply surviving, she’s scorned, despised, abandoned by the people she grew out of-to their immense loss” (Gates, Jr and Appiah 7). “During Sula’s childhood, it appears that neither Eva nor Hannah served as a positive role model who enforced or exhibited a lifestyle of domestic tranquility or security. In fact, just the opposite appears true, for neither woman provided Sula with an “intimate knowledge of marriage” (library book 36). “Hannah never bothers to remarry after being left a widow. She gives Sula an unconventional image of womanhood and motherhood through her ‘sooty’ lifestyle” (Library book 36). Sula does what she wants to please herself and sets her own goals. She refuses to let the community determine how she should live her life. Sula herself knows that the townspeople "despised her and ... framed their hatred as disgust for the easy way she lay with men because marital fidelity is one of the town's most important principles. Even worse is the one "unforgivable thing", the harshest accusation made "that Sula slept with white men"(Morrison112), offending the town's collective racial pride. Not only are the residents horrified by her sexual openness, but they are offended by her direct rebellion. “Sula’s subversion of motherhood and her commitment to temporal discontinuity cause the black community to construct her as a scapegoat and to defend with renewed vigor their conception of motherhood as the primary feminine function” (Peach 77). The community has a hard time excepting Sula’s ways and bind together to protect them from Sula’s evil. Husband and wives begin to cling to each other. Parents protect their children. They begin to repair their homes and basically band together to be protected from the devil that lurked in their midst.. “Because of her community’s rigid norms for women, Sula’s impulses cannot be absorbed. Without an “art form” her “tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor” become destructive. Sula is the artist and becomes her own work of art. As she responds defiantly to Eva’s injunction that she make babies to settle herself, “I don’t want to make somebody else, I want to make myself” (Bloom 157). Although, there was a point when Sula may have been able to change and partake in the community’s morals. “She falls in love with the maverick Ajax but then loses him when she pushes him to trade his independence for traditional domestic security” (Bloom 57). It is Nel who becomes the embodiment of the town's moral code when she gets married and is "one of them" (Morrison 120), meaning a member of the prevailing/mainstream society. Instantly, her views become aligned with those of the town and she "belonged to the town and all of its ways" (Morrison 120). She is particularly offended by Sula's promiscui

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