Celie's Struggles

The protagonist Celie life have much understanding of struggle and she realizes that her life is filled with pain and struggle of all sorts; her stepfather and husband is mostly the cause of it. Alice Walker portrays Celie in the beginning of the story as this weak-minded young woman who life is helpless and will become nothing other than the generalized life of an African-American woman in this time period. Celie is abuse sexually and physically by her stepfather, for things she doesn’t do. For example, one day she was beaten because he thought he saw her wink at a boy in church. She says, “I may have got somethin in my eye, but I didn’t wink. I don’t even look at mens. That’s the truth.” She was so afraid of him that she doesn’t verbally tell him such things, it …show more content…
As a result of repeated sexual abuse from her father, Celie struggle with her sexuality throughout the story. The assaults she received from the men in her life destroyed her self-confidence and self worth. The abuse that Celie endures has such an impact on her life, that as she writes her letter she never label the men in her letter. Celie referred to the men as “Mr.” When Celie refer to the men as Mr. it her way of regaining control and power of her life.
Celie struggle with her sexuality, because the only good sexual feelings she received was from a female name Shug Avery. The relationship with Shug was one of the most important relationships in the story. Celie fall in love Shug; Shug is the person who lifts Celie up and gives her the motivation to free herself from captivity of male power in the story. In Sedehi, Kamelia "The Color Purple and Women's Time." Journal of Language Teaching and Research it investigate the way sisterhood helps women to