Complete 7 page APA formatted essay: The Male and Female Dynamics in Sula.Eva is Sula’s grandmother. Her relationship with BoyBoy (her husband) dissolved when he walked out after five years of marri

Complete 7 page APA formatted essay: The Male and Female Dynamics in Sula.

Eva is Sula’s grandmother. Her relationship with BoyBoy (her husband) dissolved when he walked out after five years of marriage. He left Eva with three small hungry children and no visible means of support. Eva left town for an eighteen month period of time, after which she returned, with a mysterious supply of money and one leg. She built a large house, complete with adoptive children and boarders. When BoyBoy visits her after a few years away, she acts as if she was not abandoned. She really did not know what to feel about him. They politely drink lemonade, he does not ask about the children and she does not volunteer any information. When he leaves, Eva sees his girlfriend in the front yard and “It hit her like a sledge hammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest” (36). She liked the idea of hating Boyboy. Not men in general, just her husband. Eva does not have a long-term relationship with any man throughout the novel.

Eva sensibilities were inherited by her children. Her daughters married and produced children of their own. Eva passed on her lusty desire and approval of sex for recreation and pleasure. The Peace women loved men and the rituals that come with men (41). Eva had gentlemen callers and after Hannah was widowed, she had many lovers and “rippled with sex” (42). With her mother as an example, Sula sees that sex is an everyday event and can be embraced, but otherwise nothing out of the ordinary. The neighbors gossip about Hannah’s behavior..