Nel and Sula have not seen each other years, and the word around the bottom has spread of Sula's sickness. Nel pays Sula a visit and just like her grandmother Eva, she misses the part about how you greet someone. She jumps in and starts talking about her prescription that she needs refilled. Nel went over to get the prescription and their was only a watch and the folded paper in her purse. Throughout the conversation Sula kept looking up at the boarded window, where Eva had previously threw herself out of. Instead of arguing with Sula she just went and got her prescription. I thought it was very weird for Nel to want to help after all these years of not seeing Sula and treating her like everyone in town does. During Sula and Nel's conversation Nel asks her " Why did you do it?" She wanted a reason an explanation as to why she has slept with her husband. And Sula being Sula she responded in a way that was very egocentric. She told Nel that he just filled space, there was nothing else that came along with it. That boarded up window meant something to Sula, it was like when she looked at the window she was escaping from everything around her. She felt peace and serenity, the one thing she had been searching for this whole time. Nel by this time she was frustrated and wanted nothing else to do with Sula at this point.
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