There is much hostility in this book. There is a lot of anger and death, and talk about death. Eva had killed Plum stating that the reason she did it was because she was brought back to the horribleness of when that bowel problem occurred when
Plum started acting a certain way.
When Sula and Eva get into a heated argument about her leg things really begin to blow up. Sula is yelling at her saying that it was not right for her to cut her leg off just to claim insurance money. She did not have the right to change everyone’s lives as she did because of all of this. Eva tries to blame Sula for
Plum’s death. They also talk about Hannah’s death. Eva reminds Sula that she watched Hannah burn to death. Sula threatens to kill Eva in the way that she killed
Plum. You can really see all this hostility and anger in these few chapters. In response to Sula’s threat, Eva gets scared and locks her doors at night.
Throughout these few chapters you can also see this idea of meaningless marriages with several of the characters cheating on one another. Jude and Sula are caught having an affair by Nel, and this devastates her. When this happens Jude abandons Nel and their children. Again, this is not the first time that we have seen this happen in this novel.
All in all, this was an interesting book, but I must say that there were several disturbing parts that I could have done without. It was an easy read, and I found it to have several of the themes that we have seen in the past.
