In her research related to the role of memory in The Color Purple, Elena Tapia finds symmetrical and asymmetrical elements in the novel (2003). The researcher emphasizes the fact that the settings presented in The Color Purple differ from each other: the American South and the tribal village situated in Africa. According to Tapia, Walker juxtaposes characters in the novel “through default-concept opposites of black/white, submissive/dominant, male/female and others” (Tapia, 2003). The author admits that she purposely uses these dimensions in order to “induce black men and women to think about conflicts of gender well as race” (in Tapia, 2003). In the novel, the reader can notice the notion of mammy that was discussed in the first chapter of
