Moral Ambiguity In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

In the novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker creates an ambiance of hardship, self-discovery, and love through the descriptive journal entries of a young girl growing into a woman. This story is narrated by Celie, a character unsure about who she truly is and who to trust to help her find her way. Her actions, at first, seem feeble in an attempt to understand her own circumstances, but as the story progresses she begins to say and do things that are unlike her. You begin to question the exact nature of Celie, in which she is labeled as morally ambiguous. The life and people that she is forced to endure are the main sources of her being this way at all. However, her moral ambiguity is the basis for the written word of this