"Just cause you was bad enough to cut off your own leg you think you got a right to kick every body with the stump." Reading this part kind of made me laugh but it also prove to be a serious encounter between "big mama" and Sula. I like the way Sula comes into the house in this scene with her head held high not taking smack from anyone not even her grandmother. She tells her grandmother that her boldness and meanness may work on other people but that doesn't just give her the right to talk to her like that.
“Why? I can do it all, why can’t I have it all? You can’t do it all. You a woman and a colored woman at that. You can’t act like a man. You can’t be walking around all independent-like, doing whatever you like, taking what you want, leaving what you don’t” This quote for me just honestly made me want to come through the book and slap Nel. The audacity that she has is tremendous and for any women especially during that time to express this to another women is wrong. I feel like during this time women in general especially black women should be doing all they can to form some sort of sisterhood and friendship with the women around them. But the thing is Sula takes this in stride and overcomes the ignorance around her and instead proves this ignorant opinion to be very wrong.
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In response to your second passage: You mention that for Nel, or any woman during this time period to act in this way especially to another woman, was wrong. What do you feel are some of the consequences of one woman acting in this way to another both in this time period and in modernity? What do you think Morrison was trying to do in portraying both Nel acting in this way and Sula's 'taking it in stride'?
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