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This study aims to explore Sula's process of self-exploration and self-construction within a broken society and an oppressive community, the fictional village of the Bottom, on the basis of a disgust frame. A disgust frame is meaningful in the sense that a frame makes something go to a certain direction and the disgust in the work illuminates black figures' trauma and their collective morality. Although Sula is a black woman living in a chaotic family, community, and society, she, as an autonomous figure, seeks to live outside the restraints of prevailing social norms carving out her own identity as a sexual monster. Sula's outlawed behavior transgresses against the town's morality and flouts the conventions of the society. For this reason, the free-spirited Sula is regarded as the repository of evil and a potent invader to the townspeople. However, Sula's functions as a preserving force that keeps the bond of the town show the positive vision for the community. Hence, she finally becomes the newfound independence of women by removing a disgust frame.