How Does Albert Change In The Color Purple
The Color Purple
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, discusses abuse,racism, poverty, sexcism, and opression. The book focuses on Celie, a 14 year old girl who has been sexually and physically abused by her stepfather, and later by her husband, Albert. Celie has grown up with her sister, Nettie, and has protected her from the abuse that she received from their own father and from being married to Albert. Albert never really wanted to marry Celie, he originally wanted
Nettie, but couldn’t have her because their father said no. During Albert and Celie’s marriage years, Albert is a mean, selfish, sexist, and abusive person who only wants a woman to take care of his children, and a wife to look after their home. Albert is shown to believe in male
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Throughout the story Albert has grown from a selfish, sexist, and hurtful person to a caring, egalitarian man.
One of the ways that Albert changes, is how in the beginning of the story Celie stands up to him. Albert treats Celie as his property and only marries her out of necessity and not love, and abuses/forces her to take care of his kids, house, and sexual needs. When Celie finds out the biggest betrayal that Albert does, which was hiding Nettie’s letters, only then she truly snaps and leaves with Shug to Memphis, he then realizes all the wrong he committed against her. As Celie becomes her own independent person, Albert realizes all the mean things he did kept him from living a happier life with his own family, Celie, and even Shug Avery. Celie expresses hows Albert has changed from his meanness after she leaves him in one her letters to Nettie, “He said Celie,
I’m satisfied this the first time I ever lived on Earth as a natural man. It feel like a new experience.” (Walker 260) The effect of seeing Celie leave him, standing up, and becoming an independent woman makes him realizes that being mean all those years to people took away
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, discusses abuse,racism, poverty, sexcism, and opression. The book focuses on Celie, a 14 year old girl who has been sexually and physically abused by her stepfather, and later by her husband, Albert. Celie has grown up with her sister, Nettie, and has protected her from the abuse that she received from their own father and from being married to Albert. Albert never really wanted to marry Celie, he originally wanted
Nettie, but couldn’t have her because their father said no. During Albert and Celie’s marriage years, Albert is a mean, selfish, sexist, and abusive person who only wants a woman to take care of his children, and a wife to look after their home. Albert is shown to believe in male
authority …show more content…
Throughout the story Albert has grown from a selfish, sexist, and hurtful person to a caring, egalitarian man.
One of the ways that Albert changes, is how in the beginning of the story Celie stands up to him. Albert treats Celie as his property and only marries her out of necessity and not love, and abuses/forces her to take care of his kids, house, and sexual needs. When Celie finds out the biggest betrayal that Albert does, which was hiding Nettie’s letters, only then she truly snaps and leaves with Shug to Memphis, he then realizes all the wrong he committed against her. As Celie becomes her own independent person, Albert realizes all the mean things he did kept him from living a happier life with his own family, Celie, and even Shug Avery. Celie expresses hows Albert has changed from his meanness after she leaves him in one her letters to Nettie, “He said Celie,
I’m satisfied this the first time I ever lived on Earth as a natural man. It feel like a new experience.” (Walker 260) The effect of seeing Celie leave him, standing up, and becoming an independent woman makes him realizes that being mean all those years to people took away