dously sensual women. "With the exception of BoyBoy, those Peace women loved all men. It was manlove that Eva bequeathed to her daughters...The Peace women simply loved maleness, for its own sake"(41). "Men," "women," "love" and variants of each of these three words, all bleed together in every sentence of the quotation in a distinctly erotic manner. The form of the sentences punctuates the content, aiding in solidifying the Peace women's love of "all men" as an absolute fact. Therefore, those "sickle-pear trees in the front yard" act as a kind of preview for the nature of the women who live in the adjoining house. The yard and the house together represent a zone that is distinguished from its surrounding areas on the principle of conduct.
             Hannah lived in an "enormous house"(30) of three floors, with an almost extravagant number of doors and stairways throughout. Not only does the size and design of the home evoke the impression of mobility, but most of the scenes that occur within its walls contain some description of velocity. Whether it's Sula "flying up the stairs"(57), or Hannah "bounding down the stairs"(48), the Peace house is marked by the agitation it possesses. A similar sense of movement can be found in Hannah's voice, which "trailed, dipped and b
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