![]() Sula is indirectly involved in another person’s harm when Mr. Afterwards Betty begins a life of sobriety and responsibility and the townspeople look on Sula with increased scorn. Concerned for the first time about the welfare of her son, Betty takes Teapot to the hospital and discovers that he has acquired a fracture from the fall. When Betty passes by and sees Sula leaning over her child, she assumes that Sula pushed Teapot down the steps. Trying to help the fallen child, Sula bends over him. She tells him that she has none but as the boy goes to leave, he trips down her steps. ![]() One day a 5-year-old boy named Teapot, the son of a drunken woman named Betty, knocks on Sula’s door asking for bottles. Seeming disinterested in the gossip and unfriendliness of her neighbors, Sula carries on her life of independence. Discarded, Jude buys a bus ticket to Detroit and becomes an absent father. ![]() Blacks living in the Bottom thought any intimacy between a black woman and a white man was an instance of rape and were therefore just as against integration as their White neighbors.Īfter her affair with Jude, Sula moves on to other partners. The men in the neighborhood accuse Sula of sleeping with white men, which is considered one of the nastiest insults. She is called mean names and the rumor about her watching her mother burn to death resurfaces. ![]() The townspeople begin to gossip nastily about Sula when they discover that she sent Eva to a nursing home and slept with her best friend’s husband. ![]()
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