Minor Characters
Henri Martin
A New Orleans resident and friend of Great-Aunt Cecile, who alerts Helene Sabat Wright to her grandmother’s sickness.
Rekus
The husband of Hannah Peace, who dies when Sula Peace, his daughter, is three years old.
Eva / Pearl Peace
The middle of Eva Peace’s three children, and one about whom we know the least. Pearl marries a man at the age of 14, and moves to Michigan—afterwards, we hear little about her. Ohio, it seems, is only big enough for one “Eva Peace.”
Patsy
A friend of Hannah Peace.
Valentine
A friend of Hannah Peace.
Chicken Little
A young boy who plays with Sula Peace and Nel Wright, and, due in part to Sula’s clumsiness, falls into the Ohio River and drowns.
Reverend Deal
The head of the church in the Bottom.
Old Willy Fields
An orderly at the local hospital who saves Eva Peace’s life after she hurls herself out of a window.
Teapot
A young child whose parents beat him when he’s misbehaved, but stop when Sula returns to the Bottom in 1937.
Mr. Finley
An old man whose death from a chicken bone is blamed on Sula Peace.
Dessie
A woman who lives in the Bottom.
Mr. Suggs
A neighbor of Eva Peace.
Mrs. Suggs
A neighbor of Eva Peace.