In the play, The Color Purple, the author, Alice Walker, uses a quilt to symbolize the relationship and friendship between Celie and Sofia. This begins when Sofia and Harpo are fighting in there house. Harpo wants Sofia to be obedient to him like Celie is to his father, so both Mr._______ and Celie suggest that he should beat Sofia into submission like Celie was. Sofia refuses to let Harpo control her and tell her what to do, so she fights back. Celie watches the entire struggle unravel: the furniture is overturned, the plates and mirrors are broken, the bed is destroyed, and the curtains, a housewarming gift from Celie, are torn. These curtains represent the relationship between Celie and Sofia. Whatever friendship they had before has been
