Celie's Discrimination

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The major races in the novel are blacks and whites. For white men, there was the sheriff, Bub Hodges, and the mayor and their job was to control the family because of that, they had status of women. For white women there was Miss Millie and Miss Eleanor Jane and there jon was to cook, clean, and be submissive to men. For black men there was Alphonso, Harpo, Albert, and etc that had to fulfill the same role as white men while still being obedient to white men and women. The black women in the story not only had to fulfill the same role as white women, they also had to be submissive to black men, white men, and white women. White men were the foundation of their families so they had control over the women and the kids. White women were to just be …show more content…
The book has many instances of acts of racism and sexism. An example of this is Celie's interaction with the clerk at the store where because she doesn't want anything, he somewhat rushes her out the store as her presence is unnecessary. The book highlights racial segregation where the setting and time period can easily be identified. Miss Millie had a problem with Sofia riding in the passenger seat next to her as she says, "That's the problem. Have you ever seen a white person and a colored sitting side by side when one of 'em wasn't showing the other one how to drive it or clean it," which shows that coloreds had to sit in the back and not close to white people. The book also goes to highlight sexism as Celie was forced into marriage. These marriages weren't very satisfying for the women as Celie states, "I never ast you for nothing. Not even your sorry hand in marriage," which gives insight to the reader a woman's perspective on how the women were treated by their fellow counterparts. The difference between the poor and the elite class is that the poor did all the agriculture and the elite ran the towns and the

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