Unattractive Celie’s Characteristics
Well, He say, real slow, I can’t let you have Nettie. She too young. Don’t know nothing but what you tell her. Sides, I wanther to git some more
schooling. Make a schoolteacher out of her. But I can let you have Celie. She the oldest anyway p. 9.
The fact above shows the reason why Celie’s stepfather does not let Albert marry Nettie. Nettie is too young for him. Celie’s stepfather sees Nettie as an educated
person, he supports Nettie to get higher education and reach her dream to have a schoolteacher. Because of that reasons, as the one who has the rights to his
daughter,Celie’s stepfather forced Celie to marry with Albert because he thinks that Celie is the oldest girl, she is dumb and he does not let her get educationCelie
will be a good wife if she marries with Albert, as what he says to Albert, “But she’ll make the better wife,” p. 10.
As a submissive woman, Celie obeys her stepfather to marry a man she does not love and love her back. Celie does not have any other choices because as a
black woman, she does not have any right to decide to whom she will get married. However, after marrying Albert, Celie’s life does not even change. She is
more oppressed by her husband sexually. Celie’s husband that always described Celie as anunattractive woman from the very first time he saw her, heonly treated
Celie as a sexual object, “Mr. _____ clam on top of me, do his business, in ten minutes us both sleep,” p. 59. Celie never feels the sexual pleasure from her
husband. It is consistent withfact that the husbands are the one who has the rights to their wives’ bodies Hine and Thompson, 1998: 170. Celie’s husband only
treated Celie as his sexual object to satisfy his sexual desire. He does whatever he wants as the one who has the right to his wife’s body. He does not care whether
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