Alice Walker Roselily Summary Sparknotes

In the short story Roselily by Alice Walker is about a young black woman who has three children, from three previously relationships. She meets a white Muslim man who asked her to marry him. During the ceremony of the wedding Roselily finds herself in a daze about her life once before this wedding has taken place. As the preacher proceeds with the ceremony, she thinks about the men and women, both white and black who are amongst her on her wedding day. Staring unto her as if she doesn’t belonged, and in her mind she thinks they are looking at her asking her what is she doing marrying this white man who stands amongst her, with her hand in marriage. Her thoughts are how life would be if she didn’t already have children, she’s forcing herself …show more content…
The changes and sacrifices she will have to make as a new wife. Roselily reflects back on her fourth child, whom is with his father who is a wealthy man smart educated man from New England. Who came to Mississippi, to make changes in the community not in doing so got Roselily pregnant. She thinks of her son and his well-being and how it doesn’t know his roots, and her hopes for her son are that she hopes he will be a stronger man than his father. Whom cried on and off during her pregnancy, became ill, and later return to his home land in New England with their child. Where he told his wife in New England that the child that was with him was from friends of his and the child needed a home. Being that Roselily already had three children she had to provide for she felt her son would be better off with her father regardless of the …show more content…
She doesn’t know what it is like to not to not work in a sewing plant. As the ceremony is coming along, she starts to think does she even love the man that his standing in front of her about to become her husband. She knows the things she love about him such as his pride, his understanding of her past and accepting her, his willingness to love her and her children and the effort he puts in with her. The ceremony is over which ends with passionate kiss that brings her out of her daze and thoughts and reality has sunken in that she is now a married woman and new life is about to begin and they will leave Mississippi that night and in the morning be in the big city if Chicago. Then she gets scared because she starts to think about how she doesn’t know anything about the City, which makes her starts to think she is ignorant. But then her thoughts are erupted once again with the moving of the car, and she looks over at her husband who is looking straight ahead and never looks back, which she does