Sula

Sula written by Toni Morrison illustrates the myth of returning to the olden golden days. The inhabitants of the Bottom are not very caring of one another. I thought they were cruel to each other. People die and they get no sympathy and affairs are common. Sula is a character who feels not guilt for anything she does because she doesn't have a sense of good or bad. The town hates Sula, not because she has been sleeping around with their husbands, but because she has been with white men, which is really low. They call her the devil woman. The women of the town decides they need to restore their own good, so they ban together in their common hatred of Sula and try to be better neighbors, wives, and mothers.
It is not a happy book, but it does revolve around the idea that their society has degraded and they want to fix it. I think it seems like a foil to the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' myth also, because the town raises itself by targeting one individual and pushing away from them. Do you think that could be possible?