He complains that his money and houses are going to bad people - his own son and grandson. Tobias: Mr. He visits to see the famous Shug Avery, for he believed she died. When he sees her laying sick in Mr. The prizefighter: The prizefighter is Sofia's new boyfriend with whom she has Henrietta. He arrives with her at Harpo's night joint, shocking everyone. After punching Squeak in the mouth, Sofia flees with him away again.
Miss Millie: Miss Millie is the mayor's wife who Sofia attacks after provocation. Because of the incident with Miss Millie, Sofia is beaten to the point of near-death and placed in prison for nearly eight years. Miss Millie brings Sofia home to work as her maid. From that point on, Sofia raises her children and cleans her house - she does exactly what she hates - work in a kitchen for white people. Odessa: Odessa is one of Sofia's amazon sisters. She takes Sofia in when she is alone and running away from her father and later when she runs away from Harpo.
She helps raise Sofia's children with her loving husband, Jack, while Sofia is in prison. Hodges: Hodges is the warden in Sofia's prison. The family attempts to contact him so that they can help Sofia and calm her of her murderous desires.
Squeak realizes that she is his niece, through a biracial union, and therefore visits him. When Hodges recognizes her, he rapes her and keeps Sofia in prison longer. Billy: Miss Millie and the mayor's little boy who plays ball outside near Sofia and Celie.
On the playground, Sofia is indifferent to his bloody foot injured by a rusty nail. Eleanor Jane: Eleanor Jane is the mayor's little girl who Celie believes is beautiful on the playground. Sofia practically raises her, when let out of prison, and Eleanor develops a strong attachment to Sofia.
However, Sofia does not feel the same way. Eventually, Eleanor begins to understand the mistreatment and injustice that blacks have suffered and attempts to make up for it, at least to Sofia, by caring for Henrietta, Sofia's daughter. Grady: Grady is Shug Avery's husband. Shug leaves him to go back work, but nobody is hurt because Grady is a boring, unattractive man, who eventually moves to Panama with Squeak to open a plantation and smoke marijuana.
Corrine: Celie tells Nettie to find Corrine. Corrine is a missionary who takes Nettie into her home as an equal. With her two adoptive children, Olivia and Adam, they travel to England and Africa, teaching English and Christianity.
While in Africa, Corrine becomes ill with African fever and dies. Her love for her family never ceased, even during her times of doubt and confusion. Samuel: Samuel is Corrine's missionary colored husband, who travels to England and Africa. Corrine wonders if her children belong to Nettie and Samuel. After Corrine passes away, Samuel and Nettie fall in love and marry.
They leave Africa for economic reasons and because Olinka is no more. Samuel loves Nettie deeply and tries to help her and Celie as much as possible, as soon as he discovers who she is. Tashi: Tashi is a young African girl with whom Olivia and Adam play and learn. She is a traditional follower of the Olinka culture and painfully undergoes the traditional facial scarring and ceremonial entrance into womanhood, much to Adam's dismay.
She eventually marries Adam and moves to America with the rest of the family. Daisy: Daisy is the young new wife of Celie and Nettie's father. She is pregnant, uneducated, and unkempt. Jack: Odessa's loving and doting husband who helps raise Sofia's children on their farm. He is the initial inspiration for Celie's pants. Henrietta: Sofia's youngest child with the prizefighter, not Harpo. Harpo loves her the most. Jerene and Darlene: The twins in Memphis who help Celie sew pants and learn how to speak correct English.
She comes from aristocratic blood and old money, yet fled to Africa to live the exciting life of a single missionary. Harold: Harold is the young African boy who travels to England with Doris as her adoptive grandchild. New York, NY. Cheshire, CT. Pericles Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia, PA. Our Price. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Show Guides Show Guides. Search all shows.
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She learns resilience, insists that Harpo call her Mary Agnes, and begins to sing. The Major is a bully who uses his power as a white male to physically intimidate and then abuse Sofia because he is insulted by her insolence.
Miss Millie is insensitive but essentially harmless. Typically separated from the black community, Miss Millie does not even think to question the status quo let alone resist it.
She wants Sofia to care about her in the way that she cares about Sofia--after all, she has been brought up by Sofia. Unfortunately for Eleanor Jane, her efforts to persuade Sofia are fruitless. Eleanor Jane represents a positive step for the future, for she is more intelligent and forward-thinking than either of her parents. She is unruly and mischievous and has a dangerous disease.
Characteristic of her mother when she was young, Henrietta puts up a brave fight and is still going by the end of the novel. Happily married to Samuel, the only thing missing in her life is children. When she adopts Adam and Olivia, she asks for nothing else, for she now has a completely happy family.
Hardworking and religious, Corrine succumbs to suspicion and jealousy when she sees how well Nettie and Samuel get on and how much the children look like Nettie. She dies content that Nettie is not their mother--but has spent many anxious years thinking that Nettie was. The Reverend Samuel is dedicated to his missionary duties and works hard to bring help to the Olinka tribe. Gentle and sensitive, he takes Nettie into his home thinking she has come in search of Adam and Olivia.
Intelligent and independent, Olivia does not immediately fit into the Olinka way of life. She does not find love during the course of the novel, but this is presented as a good thing, for the men she lives with in Africa expect her to be subservient and this is something she adamantly refuses.
A passionate young boy who loves Tashi but finds the culture she comes from difficult to accept. He cannot bear to think she will undergo the scarring and the female initiation ceremony. When he realizes how much he loves her, he decides to join her and have the scarring done himself. After years with Nettie and Olivia, Catherine realizes that education is important and that she is free to change her views once her husband is dead.
Tashi is torn between her Olinka culture and the more modern world that Nettie and Olivia introduce to her. Not officially educated, Tashi learns from Olivia but succumbs to the tribal ceremonies of scarring and the female initiation ceremony. The white missionary whom Nettie and Samuel meet on their way to England. Unusually forward thinking for her time, Doris has contributed hugely to communities in Africa as well as helping individuals by sending them to England for their education.
She has adopted Harold, the African boy with whom she is traveling, as her grandson. She sees past color and convention and is a key contributor to change. The Question and Answer section for The Color Purple is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. In Section 1 of The Color Purple, how do two events in the dry-goods store where Celie meets Olivia foreshadow future conflicts for the characters?
Celie sees Olivia in the dry-goods store and knows that she is her child. The fact that she follows foreshadows her inability to stay away, but when Olivia's "new mother" comments on her "daddy", and Celie is unable to stop herself from What is the implication here? He isn't thrilled with Celie on sight examination , but he wants to make sure that her dowry the cow remains intact before taking her as his wife.
I think this has to do with a woman's verginity.
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