Love
This book can really tell us just how confusing love really is. Does anyone know the exact meaning? From the beginning of the book, the only type of love any of the characters has experienced is sex. That's what they thought love was. Celie grew up watching her parents and thinking that basically living together and having children was being in love. I think as the book went on Celie learned from Harpo that love had to do more with the feelings from within. Harpo went right up to Celie and told her he was in love and wanted to marry Sofia. When he did marry her, he didn't do anything but show her love. He didn't beat her, he didn't use her for sex, and he didn't expect anything out of her. The traditional thought of men having control over women in a relationship was what eventually got to him and made him beat Sofia. Celie only focused on the start of their relationship, which made her realize what love really means to her.
In the book, there's Shug, who claims her love for Celie more than anyone else, but continues to love other people, leaving Celie in the dust. And Celie, even though she knows Shug loves other people, can't get over her own love for Shug and decides to wait for her. As far as Mr. _____, it seems like he doesn't even hold a meaning for love, and he could care less what it means. Sofia would never be with anyone who didn't truly love her back. She doesn't waste her time on people who don't put her first and think of her as important. As you can see, everyone in the book holds their own perspective about love. Maybe in the end there is no true meaning to love. Maybe it's whatever we want it to mean, and that is what Alice Walker is trying to tell us.
In the book, there's Shug, who claims her love for Celie more than anyone else, but continues to love other people, leaving Celie in the dust. And Celie, even though she knows Shug loves other people, can't get over her own love for Shug and decides to wait for her. As far as Mr. _____, it seems like he doesn't even hold a meaning for love, and he could care less what it means. Sofia would never be with anyone who didn't truly love her back. She doesn't waste her time on people who don't put her first and think of her as important. As you can see, everyone in the book holds their own perspective about love. Maybe in the end there is no true meaning to love. Maybe it's whatever we want it to mean, and that is what Alice Walker is trying to tell us.