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Major Character: Nel Wright

1. Nel was brought up to be an obedient and polite girl under Helen’s strict hand. After returning to Medallion from a trip with her mother, she finds a sense of identity and strives to be ‘wonderful’. She becomes best friends with Sula Peace, and is the more emotionally stable of the two.

2. Nel didn’t inherit her mother’s beauty – she has what her mother deems as a ‘flat nose’ Nel prefers Sula’s crowded and eventful house to her own strict home After Chicken Little drowns, Nel remains calm and is the one who comforts the crying Sula She marries Jude Greene, a handsome tenor of Mount Zion’s Men’s Quartet

3. “Any enthusiasms that little Nel showed were calmed by the mother until she drove her daughter’s imagination underground.” (18) “After she met Sula, Nel slid the clothespin under the blanket as soon as she got in the bed…smooth hair…no longer interested her.” (55) “Except for an occasional leadership role with Sula, she had no aggression. Her parents had succeeded in rubbing down to a dull glow any sparkle or splitter she had. Only with Sula did that quality have free reign, but their friendship was so close, they themselves had difficulty distinguishing one’s thoughts from the other’s.” (83)

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