How Does Alice Walker Present Women's Happiness In The Color Purple

Women’s Happiness As a black female growing up in a prejudiced time period, Alice Walker lived through cruelty and isolation. After finding her voice and standing up for herself, Walker was able to confront the challenges life presented. Her experiences led to accomplishing extraordinary things like becoming an author. In one of her novels, The Color Purple, Walker creates Celie, the main character, to demonstrate her beliefs in women’s rights and equality for all. Alice Walker uses characterization and point of view to illustrate that with independence and love a woman’s life can be full of happiness. Walker grew up on a farm in the late 1940’s with her mother, father and eight older siblings. At age eight Walker was shot in the eye with a BB gun. The deformation of her eye made her feel unworthy and alone. This resulted in Walker spending most of her time with her mother and aunt reading and writing. In
In The Color Purple, Celie begins the novel by describing a terrible episode in her life that impedes the development of her identity at a young age. It all starts when she raped and abused by her father. When she is forced into marriage, Celie believes she is an unattractive African American woman. This causes her to accept living like a slave to her husband. As the story progresses Celie starts to change. After meeting Shug, Celie’s partner, Celie is able to experience the importance of having a loving relationship and the impact it can have on her life. Their friendship becomes stronger and more romantic causing Celie to realize how much happier she is around Shug. The strength of their friendship gives Celie the power to leave her physically and psychologically terrifying husband and get a job on her own. With her independence and love Celie discovers contentment: “I am so happy. I got love, l got work, I got money, friends and