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The women fighting brutally over ajax is almost a subversion of traditional gender roles? He’s the one who has agency and has multiple women but the women themselves are also possessive over him. In that way they’re almost both assertive?
Something subversive here though…

Feel like 120-121 section about Sula is very in line with the braking of boundaries that A Life of Ones Own explores and rests on and in that way Sula is like Lila

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the baked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.

What to make of this spider metaphor? She spends practically a whole page on it…

Their conviction of sulas evil actually changed the community in really positive ways. Both the sort of external evil makes for great unity when things are bad internally declare war on something external vibe. But also like teapots mamma becomes a good mother after sula “pushed” him. Also the wives love their husbands better cuz sula sleeps with them once and discards them

“Devil all right.”
“No two ways about it,” Dessie said and she popped the rubber band off the deck of cards to settle them down for a nice long game of bid whist.

“They believed she was laughing at their God.”

Woah this grief and confusion and paralysis really perfectly captured

Reminds me in a sort of vague sense of The God of Small Things