The Color Purple Analytical Essay

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple one of the characters that really influences the main character, Celie is Mr.__. He is known as Mister to Celie and Albert to others in the story. Bell Hooks who writes a critical essay on Erotic Metaphysic” is based on Mister transforms sexually and maturing into someone respectable.
In the beginning of the book, Celie describes Mister as a man no family wants to marry the girls off to because his last wife ran away and left him with 6 kids. When Celie is sold into the marriage, she is forced to sexually satisfy him and take care of the kids. Throughout most of the story she is sexually, emotionally, mentally and physically abused by Mister. He takes and takes from Celie but never gives anything back to him.

I believed that Mister’s change was just because he had no one to command to his dirty bidding. All of kids have left, grown up and having their own families. With Celie gone, there is no one to clean, cook, washi his clothes, work on the farm. My perspective on the book is that Mister has never had done anything for himself once he left his father’s house. He was still under his father’s thumb until Shug came back and turned everything around. He thought Celie would come back crawling to him but she didn’t and even made a name for herself with selling pants she made. Her independence made him look at himself and saw that he was sitting doing the same old routine, following his father’s footsteps and doing nothing he loved. With the research I read on Bell Hooks article, my perspective has widened that Mister has really changed with his sexuality and power gone thanks to Celie. Celie cursing his existence has freed him from following the patriarchal social order. His change has made him important because it shows men who make bad decisions can still have a moment of wisdom and see that what they’re doing is wrong and can change themselves to make themselves