Sula and Nel depended on each other for support and self-acceptance. It was like they were not complete if the other one was not around. They began their friendship when they were little girls. "Their friendship was intense as it was sudden" (Morrison 53). This intensity was the beginning of the sisterhood that they shared. They both were fatherless and complimented each other with their opposite behavior. They were completely different people which made people refer to them as two parts of one whole and they both grew to be very similar to the mothers that they lacked proper attention from. They were completely different people which made people refer to them as two parts of one whole and they both grew to be very similar to the mothers that they lacked proper attention from. Sula became wild and sexually liberated, similar to the opinion that the community had about her mother. Nel became a wife to her husband and enjoyed her "neat" life the way that her mother enjoyed her neat home.
Sula was raised by a mother who obviously liked her deceased brother more than she liked her. This became increasingly obvious when Sula overheard her say that she loved Sula but did not like her. Sula was a young girl and to hear that her mother did not like her was something that she never got over. Because of her household she became independent and she did not conform to
Cited: Morrison, Toni. Sula. Penguin: New York (1973).