Celie In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

The Color Purple written by Alice Walker is a series of private letters between Celie and God, also later a few between her and her sister Nettie. Celie was a poor, ugly and uneducated African-America fourteen-year old girl. In Celie’s first letter we learn that she was beat and raped repeatedly by father, Alphonso. Her father impregnated her twice with a son and a daughter which he then put up for adoption. Celie’s father continued to abuse her and pulled her out of school. and then her mentally ill mother died.
Celie had a younger sister, Nettie who was much prettier and smarter than she was. A man only called by the name Mr. was looking for a woman to clean his house, cook for him, and take care of his children. He had taken interest in Nettie and asked her hand in marriage. Alphonso denied his proposal and offered him her older sister, Celie who was already “damaged”. After a short time Celie was married into a hard and joyless marriage. She had to take care of Mr.’s …show more content…
learns that his mistress, Shug Avery, is very ill. Celie was forced by Mr. to take care of Shug Avery and nurse her back to health. Shug is rude and cruel to Celie at first but overtime they became good friends. After Sofia had left Harpo he reinvented their house and turned it into a bar where he asked Shug, a former jazz singer, to perform. She drew in big crowds and Harpo’s bar became very successful. When the time came for Shug to leave Mr. and Celies’s home, Celie begged her not to by admitting that Mr. beats her. Shug leaves after she’s managed to get Mr. to agree not to beat Celie so much. She later returns to the home with her new rich husband Grady. During that visit she learns that Celie had never enjoyed sex, she tried to educate Celie on how to receive pleasure from sex. However, it’s clear that she has no feeling towards Mr. and loves Shug. So despite her marriage to Grady, Shug and Celie show their love for each other and Celie experiences sexual pleasure for the first