![]() ![]() ![]() While Shadrack “sees a tadpole over her eye: a sign of friendship and the mark of the fish he loves”. Nel saw it as a rose on a stem, which “gave her glance a suggestion of startled pleasure”. However, observing it from another point of view, Nel, her best friend, and Shadrack, a World War I soldier, saw the birthmark as a beautiful thing. Furman expressed “Nel does not discover it until after Sula’s death and she is old, the real loss in her life is that of Sula and not Jude”, which ties to the message of friendship being carried as a theme. In other words, the community was displaying their hate towards her and shaped her birthmark for who she was as a person representing the wickedness in her. “When the community learns that she has slept with Jude and put out Eva, they read the mark as a sign of evil” (Lister 246). For example, when Sula committed adultery with her best friend’s husband, people saw her as the Devil labeling her birthmark as the Devil’s Mark and darkening whenever evil came to play. Depending on the person and how they correlated their feelings towards Sula, they viewed the birthmark differently. “Sula was a heavy brown with large quiet eyes, one of which featured a birthmark that spread from the middle of the lid toward the eyebrow, shaped something like a stemmed rose” (Morrison 52). Being born with a birthmark from the middle of her eyelid to her eyebrow, Sula throughout her life was always criticized for it. ![]()
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