Our society as a whole has augmented into the idea of gender roles. Women are limited as to what they can do outside of their household. However, the advancement does not remove the damage. This topic baffles many due to previous notions. In The Color Purple, Celie is someone who struggles through this. She is unable to do anything other than serve as an object. She suffers through a lot of pain that causes her to lose sense of her feelings. Not only does this malign her, but also generations to come. In the beginning, Celie’s innocence is taken away from her believed to be father. “He [Pa] never had a kine word to say to me. Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t,” (Walker, 1). She is deleterious with the inability of doing anything.