Bottom

Toni Morrison short story begins in a place Bottom and the story is based on these two girls that go through some hardships their entire lives. Nel and Sula became best of friends but they have totally different backgrounds. Nel’s mother Helen is very strict and has opinion about everyone and everything, and does a really good job of making sure that doesn’t have much fun. Nel and Helen are returning back to their hometown to visit their dying grandmother Cecile and this when the two girls finally met. However, Helen doesn’t approval of Sula’s mother Hannah. Sula’s mother Hannah isn’t concerned about what’s proper or improper, and her legged grandmother Eva entertains a string of men. Their house also has a man Tar Baby living there in the house and his only interest is drowning his self in a bottle. Hannah also has a habit of sleeping with married men for fun and Sula eventually adopts the same attitude and it plays a big part in the story. Throughout years Sula learns that her mother dosen’t likes her but she loves her and from there they get involved in an accident that results in the drowning of a boy named Chicken Little. Nel gets married to a man Jude and Sula leaves town but ten years later she comes back and has a affair with Jude. This story tells how Sula become the person and it cost her a losing a really good friend.