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all traces of her mother's past from Nel's life so that Nel will be respectable, but the reader knows that while Nel herself strives to be an honest woman, she herself represents the duality between the moral and the promiscuous. Morrison underscores this with the statement that for Nel, "Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself" (p. 82). Critic Karen F. Stein highlights this thread in her critique of the novel, pointing out that eventually, Nel recogni

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