Many people agree that a person “finds themselves” in their mid twenties. They may change locations, they may change jobs, they may change friends, and they may even change relationships. The twenties are the time between childhood and adulthood, where people learn, grow, and must overcome many challenges that come their way. In the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker, the main character Celie is portrayed as a strong dynamic character to demonstrate the theme that finding courage and respecting yourself is a crucial part of life. Raphaël Lambert reiterates this when saying, “Alice Walker 's The Color Purple (1982) tells the story of Celie, a poor, downtrodden African American girl from rural Georgia who, in the early twentieth century,
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_________’s mistress, Shug Avery. It is thought that the purpose of her role is to help Celie identify herself and who she is as a person. In “Celie’s Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” the author says, “It is the seemingly inappropriate nightclub singer Shug Avery, however, who provides Celie with an extended period of “female bonding” ; who, with unconditional love, provides a “holding environment” in which Celie’s nascent self is reflected back to itself; and, who, as surrogate and “good-enough mother” and lover, helps Celie to complete the development of those capacities that enable her to deal more effectively with loss, to finalize her gender identity and choice of mature love object, and to develop a stable sense of self” (Proudfit 98-99). This is helping to prove the claim that Shug Avery provides Celie with the resources that she needs to identify her true being, and find herself spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. It is shown that through the relationship Celie holds with Shug, that she has learned what it means to respect yourself. The article “Explanation of: ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker” states, “Through this relationship Celie begins to feel loved and develops newfound feelings of self-worth”. As otherwise stated, Shug Avery, just like Nettie, sparked something into Celie that started a chain reaction of change. Due to this, Celie begins to recognize the importance of the women in her life, and that they are what truly matter to
_________’s mistress, Shug Avery. It is thought that the purpose of her role is to help Celie identify herself and who she is as a person. In “Celie’s Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” the author says, “It is the seemingly inappropriate nightclub singer Shug Avery, however, who provides Celie with an extended period of “female bonding” ; who, with unconditional love, provides a “holding environment” in which Celie’s nascent self is reflected back to itself; and, who, as surrogate and “good-enough mother” and lover, helps Celie to complete the development of those capacities that enable her to deal more effectively with loss, to finalize her gender identity and choice of mature love object, and to develop a stable sense of self” (Proudfit 98-99). This is helping to prove the claim that Shug Avery provides Celie with the resources that she needs to identify her true being, and find herself spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. It is shown that through the relationship Celie holds with Shug, that she has learned what it means to respect yourself. The article “Explanation of: ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker” states, “Through this relationship Celie begins to feel loved and develops newfound feelings of self-worth”. As otherwise stated, Shug Avery, just like Nettie, sparked something into Celie that started a chain reaction of change. Due to this, Celie begins to recognize the importance of the women in her life, and that they are what truly matter to