A few years later, Sula is dying, and Nel briefly visits her. Sula begins a relationship with a man named Ajax, but he ends the affair when Sula begins acting more like a wife than a lover. It questions and examines the terms 'good' and 'evil,' often.
Nel comes to realize that in the aftermath of Chicken Little's death she had too quickly clung to social convention in an effort to define herself as 'good.' Nel goes to the cemetery and mourns at Sula's grave, calling out Sula's name in sadness.
