Usually, somewhere in a lifetime, people are faced with a crucible that ultimately changes them forever, causing them to become a better or bitter person, depending on the situation. Unfortunately, this is not the case for, Nathan Price. In the novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the story is told by the perspectives and experiences of the Price women. The Price family all have to deal with the new surroundings and challenges of Africa. Each of the Price women change in their own way due to their experiences in Congo. If you read the novel from the beginning to the very end, it would be hard not to notice that, Nathan Price, does not develop character like his wife and daughters. Due to the fact he has no character development, that is the reason why, Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, did not give Nathan Price a perspective to tell his side of the story, unlike his wife and daughters.
When the Price’s first came to congo, the Natives all made a welcoming party for their
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However, this is simply untrue. How can one care for an entire village of strangers, when one does not care for their own family? When Nathan’s wife tries to tell him, that his twin daughters, Adah and Leah, are gifted in school, he says sending women off to get an education, is bad and hazardous, claiming that it is not the way of God. He felt nothing when he was told his daughters are smart, believing that, all women are lower and cannot possibly accomplish anything in life. His wife, Orleanna, had to send the twin girls off to school in secret, because she knew that Nathan would not allow it. Even when his youngest daughter, Ruth May, died due to being bitten by a snake, Nathan Price said nothing except, “she was not baptized”. A death of his daughter, and yet he felt no remorse, beside the fact she was not