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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe writer decides to analyze Toni Morrison's Sula and
to choose a title A Study on the Conflicting Ideas of Black
Women's Roles in Sula-and-Nel's Friendship because the writer
is concerned with Sula's idea on feminism which causes her
to conflict with Nel. Their different roles as women, one
(Sula) as a radical feminist and a modern woman; and the
other (Nel) as a conventional woman, lead their friendship to
a conflict. This conflict triggers the writer to question
and to analyze the causes of their conflict and the ending of
their conflict. Their conflict is caused by Sula's sleeping
with Jude, Nel's husband. This core of problem, as seen in
the story, reveals their different ideas on the roles of
black women. Sula thinks that sleeping with Jude is alright,
but Nel does not think so. Their different ideas were in-fluenced
by their different childhood background and dif-ferent
society's values in which they live during their
teenage years. They need each other as friends, but unfor-tunately,
their ideas on black women's roles are never able
to meet. From this ending of the analysis, it can be con-cluded
then that Sula is the embodiment of a modern woman and
Nel is the embodiment of a conventional woman.