The Color Purple
As generations grow many stereotypes get rather irelavent to the ara in each they appear in. Some women have grown very far since the old days, they have become independent and been equally treated, though it wasn’t like this all the time. Sadly in the novel, The Color Purple, stereotypes werent stereotypes but reality. Women were expected to stay home to clean the house, make food, take care of the hundreds of kids, and to satisfy the man. Even though during this time it may have seem that men and women had their stereotypic roles, but their were some who didn’t always fit into traditionally defined gender roles.
In the novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, the traditional routine for women was to listen to men, and …show more content…
However, she was not spoken of very well, but that didn’t stop her. Shug didn’t have a man, and did not need one, she gained her own money by singing. Traditionally women had men holding them back, preventing them from doing things they like. On the other hand, Shug had money to what she wanted, how she wanted, “ she has a dress to kill. She got on a red wool dress and chestful of black beads. A shiny black hat with look like chickinhawk feathers curve down side one cheek, and she carrying a little snakeskin bag, match her shoes.” (45) The role of women didn’t rely around having money, but Shug broke that tradition, she was bright enough to know she didn’t need a man to have what she wants. As a matter of fact, Shug broke all traditional roles when she fell in love with another women, rather than a man, “ Celie, she say, through her fingers, I still love you.”(249) The action of loving another girl instead of a man totally broke the traditional gender roles of women. When shug was around men, she treated them with no fear or worry, “ Do Shug Avery mind Mr.? I ast. She the woman he wanted to marry. She call him Albert, tell him his drawers stink in a minute. Little as he is, when she git her weight back she can sit on him if he try to bother her..Turnloose my goddamn hand, she say to Mr.____ What the matter with you, you crazy? I don’t need no weak little boy …show more content…
The other two women always presented a strong character. Celie had a quiet character, but was stronger because she was able to take everything that happened to her but didn’t let it affect her, “But I just say, Never mine, never mine, long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.. I all i can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself , Celie, you a tree.”(17) Celie could run, fit, or even cry but doesn’t do any of that, shes so strong she just takes it all without ever letting him break her. Celie was scared of men, but slowly started to gain more confidence, and becoming less of a traditional wife. With the help of Shug she gained enough confidence to tell Abert she was leaving, “ You a lowdown dog is what’s wrong, I say. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.. Mr.____ reach over to slap me. I jab my case knife in his hand.” (199) She finally demonstrated actions of not having traditional gender role. More importantly, each day that passed, made her more conscious of why she left Albert. Celie wanted to be be independent, she began to make her own pants for money, “How you make your living up there? he say. Making pants, I say. He say, I noticed everybody in the family just about wearing pants you made. But you turned into a business? That’s right, I say. But I really started right here in your
As generations grow many stereotypes get rather irelavent to the ara in each they appear in. Some women have grown very far since the old days, they have become independent and been equally treated, though it wasn’t like this all the time. Sadly in the novel, The Color Purple, stereotypes werent stereotypes but reality. Women were expected to stay home to clean the house, make food, take care of the hundreds of kids, and to satisfy the man. Even though during this time it may have seem that men and women had their stereotypic roles, but their were some who didn’t always fit into traditionally defined gender roles.
In the novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, the traditional routine for women was to listen to men, and …show more content…
However, she was not spoken of very well, but that didn’t stop her. Shug didn’t have a man, and did not need one, she gained her own money by singing. Traditionally women had men holding them back, preventing them from doing things they like. On the other hand, Shug had money to what she wanted, how she wanted, “ she has a dress to kill. She got on a red wool dress and chestful of black beads. A shiny black hat with look like chickinhawk feathers curve down side one cheek, and she carrying a little snakeskin bag, match her shoes.” (45) The role of women didn’t rely around having money, but Shug broke that tradition, she was bright enough to know she didn’t need a man to have what she wants. As a matter of fact, Shug broke all traditional roles when she fell in love with another women, rather than a man, “ Celie, she say, through her fingers, I still love you.”(249) The action of loving another girl instead of a man totally broke the traditional gender roles of women. When shug was around men, she treated them with no fear or worry, “ Do Shug Avery mind Mr.? I ast. She the woman he wanted to marry. She call him Albert, tell him his drawers stink in a minute. Little as he is, when she git her weight back she can sit on him if he try to bother her..Turnloose my goddamn hand, she say to Mr.____ What the matter with you, you crazy? I don’t need no weak little boy …show more content…
The other two women always presented a strong character. Celie had a quiet character, but was stronger because she was able to take everything that happened to her but didn’t let it affect her, “But I just say, Never mine, never mine, long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.. I all i can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself , Celie, you a tree.”(17) Celie could run, fit, or even cry but doesn’t do any of that, shes so strong she just takes it all without ever letting him break her. Celie was scared of men, but slowly started to gain more confidence, and becoming less of a traditional wife. With the help of Shug she gained enough confidence to tell Abert she was leaving, “ You a lowdown dog is what’s wrong, I say. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.. Mr.____ reach over to slap me. I jab my case knife in his hand.” (199) She finally demonstrated actions of not having traditional gender role. More importantly, each day that passed, made her more conscious of why she left Albert. Celie wanted to be be independent, she began to make her own pants for money, “How you make your living up there? he say. Making pants, I say. He say, I noticed everybody in the family just about wearing pants you made. But you turned into a business? That’s right, I say. But I really started right here in your