These letters allow her to display any emotion, and theyare very personal to her as well.
In the beginning, when she was writing letters only to God, the letterswere very private and Celie would not have wanted anyone to see them.
The letters are the only way she can represent her true feelings anddespair as she is abused.
Later, the letters she gets from Nettie give her hope that she will bereunited with her sister again.
Celie writes to God for a lack of someone else to write to. She writesto her sister because she gets mad at God because of her past and the peoplewho have been hurt because of it.
She asks God Why? which is a question that cannot beanswered.
The last letter she writes is to everyone, includingGod showing that she has forgiven Him, and that her storyhas gone through a full circle of maturation.
theme:
In the short story The Color Purple, author Alice Walker describes the life of Celie, a blackwoman growing up in the South. She must overcome racism and poverty to establish herself as anindependent person. The novel also follows the maturation of her sister Nettie and thelives of Shug, Albert, and much of his extended family.
A motif in The Color Purple is the recurring concept of roundness.
The concept of roundness relates to the shape of the human body, andespecially the female body.
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