Morrison and politics

Sula has a lot of political aspects. One of the main things I noticed was Sula’s fight for socioeconomic status. As reade’s we must accept the corruption of moral absolutes within the novel. If you want Sula to be polarized into a common binary, you are out of luck. People want to have black and white, good and evil, or even pretty and ugly—Morrison wants us to journey beyond these kind of Christianized binaries. Although we are able to see that the death of the boy affected Sula and Nel greatly, Sula seems to be the one who carries the weight of guilt her entire life. Only at the end does Nel realized that she had polarized Sula into that category once the boy had died. Nel took no responsibility for what occurred because immediately she was the good friend and Sula the bad. As the story progresses, Sula fell into this role.