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Women's Relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's Sula

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women share with men. Toni Morrisons "Sula" and Alice Walkers "The Color Purple" serve as outstanding examples of this reality. As such, the following paper examines "Sula" and then "The  Color Purple," ending with a brief conclusion about how the two works illustrate the power of womens relationships. Sula While Toni Morrisons novel has been seen as a story  about womens struggles, ethnic needs, and many other social or emotional realities, it is also a story about the power of friendship between Sula and Nel. Anyone who has had  an intensely close friend will recognize how Sula and Nel are powerfully representative of two people who are very different yet combine to make a whole individual for they are,  in many ways, soul mates. In the beginning we readily note that Sula and Nel come from very different backgrounds. While Sulas life is one that is less than  perfect in terms of economic stability, Nels is much more rigidly controlled and far wealthier. From the beginning they compliment each other in these differences and seem to understand that  when they meet and "felt the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was  forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to sit in a red velvet sofa, "still  as dawn" (Morrison 29). Nel, on the other hand, loved the uncontrolled nature of Sulas house where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was  less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets the stage and creates the foundation of the narrative, we have two young