Both Uses of
evaluate
in
Sula
- In 1970, when I began writing Sula, I had already had the depressing experience of reading commentary on my first novel, The Bluest Eye, by both black and white reviewers that—with two exceptions—had little merit since the evaluation ignored precisely the "aesthetics only" criteria it championed.†
Chpt Frwd.evaluation = the process of thinking carefully and making a judgment about something
- The people either accepted his own evaluation of his life, or were indifferent to it.†
Chpt 1921 *
Definition:
to think carefully and make a judgment about something