Gender Roles In Alice Walker's The Color Purple
In Luna, Liam’s an undercover transgender who has a hard time revealing himself to friends and family. Liam’s younger sister, Regan’s, the only one who knows that he cross dresses, and identifies with the name Luna. Although the novel’s told from Regan’s perspective, it focuses on Liam and his everyday battle between himself and who he really wants to be. Regan’s life orbits around Luna. In The Color Purple, Nettie motivates Celie to speak up for herself while in The Lost Weekend, Wick fails at an attempt to help Don end his alcoholism streak. All three novels displays, behind a frail gay character, is a strong heterosexual sibling.
In The Color Purple, Celie were used and abused by her step-children and husband. Celie were ready to give …show more content…
“Regan is an example of a sister that goes above and beyond the expectations of any sister. Regan has unconditional love for her brother Liam, and she is able to convey that as a child. Most of the time, though, these siblings have a mutually supportive relationship, even if Regan is uneasy when she thinks about Liam "transitioning," becoming a woman on the outside as well as on the inside. This positive relationship is essential to Liam, who is sometimes teased at school and often bullied at home by their macho father, who embraces traditional gender roles and constantly pressures Liam to be more masculine” (Piehl). Regan’s her sisters’ keepers who hides her own pain to take on …show more content…
She enjoys her job because it’s a way for her to not have to concentrate on Liam and his problems. Regan states, “”I loved the Materas. They were, like, family. I loved that job. It’s the only thing I had that was mine.” I slapped my chest. “Mine”” (Peters, 171). Luna gets Regan fired by dressing in the mothers’ clothes while the children are sleeping. This hurt Regan because she loved going to the family house and not having to deal with Luna. The Materas house were her escape away from home. She had a hard time juggling Luna’s problems and her personal life. So the one time she relied on Luna to return the favor and help her out, Luna gets her
In The Color Purple, Celie were used and abused by her step-children and husband. Celie were ready to give …show more content…
“Regan is an example of a sister that goes above and beyond the expectations of any sister. Regan has unconditional love for her brother Liam, and she is able to convey that as a child. Most of the time, though, these siblings have a mutually supportive relationship, even if Regan is uneasy when she thinks about Liam "transitioning," becoming a woman on the outside as well as on the inside. This positive relationship is essential to Liam, who is sometimes teased at school and often bullied at home by their macho father, who embraces traditional gender roles and constantly pressures Liam to be more masculine” (Piehl). Regan’s her sisters’ keepers who hides her own pain to take on …show more content…
She enjoys her job because it’s a way for her to not have to concentrate on Liam and his problems. Regan states, “”I loved the Materas. They were, like, family. I loved that job. It’s the only thing I had that was mine.” I slapped my chest. “Mine”” (Peters, 171). Luna gets Regan fired by dressing in the mothers’ clothes while the children are sleeping. This hurt Regan because she loved going to the family house and not having to deal with Luna. The Materas house were her escape away from home. She had a hard time juggling Luna’s problems and her personal life. So the one time she relied on Luna to return the favor and help her out, Luna gets her