Who Is Celie A Passive Character

CHARACTERS

Celie - No description of Celie is given, being that the novel is told through her eyes. In contrast, her actions and thoughts are enhanced by the narrator’s position. Celie is a poor, uneducated black female with a harsh history. The novel examines her struggle to find self-esteem, love, and courage to overcome multiple conflicts. She is victim to repeated immoral events: She’s raped by her father, stripped from her children, and sold into a marriage of servitude. During her years of mistreatment and isolation, Celie is emotionally numb. For most of the book, she is completely passive. She states, "I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive." (P 29) This shows that Celie feels it’s better to survive than to
______ initially wanted to marry. She is intelligent, strong, and loyal to Celie. She’s the only character who loves Celie consistently and unconditionally throughout the entire novel. As a young girl, she evades many difficulties that Celie endures; their father does not rape her, and when their father does show an undue interest in her, Celie protects her. Unlike Celie, Nettie is educated and independent of all men. Although Celie had to leave school after she became pregnant by Pa, Celie steers her father away from Nettie so that Nettie can have a better life and continue her education. She takes full advantage of her education and works very hard, knowing that this is her opportunity to escape. Celie also marries Mr.__ instead of Nettie, thus keeping Nettie from being a married woman, tied down to her husband’s children and constantly giving birth to children of her own. Since she is able to stay at school whereas Celie is taken out when she gets pregnant, Nettie shares her wealth of knowledge with Celie when they are together. She is an eager learner and always interested in passing her