Walkers chose a narrator that suffered. She was a woman who was weak against the men in her life and helpless in society. She was uneducated and poor, as well as ugly and unrefined. She had no special talents and her husband was a constant reminder of her value in the world. Her children came from the only father she had ever known and her life was wrapped around abuse from every angle. Why would Walkers choose this kind of a narrator?
Celie is a tool within the story. She shows that all people including poor uneducated victimized black women have an important story to tell. It doesn’t matter who people say you are. Everyone has a place that they have come from and a everyone has a place that they are going and there is always something in the middle. If Celie was given the chance to tell her story then everyone should be given a chance to tell his or her story. She was someone the reader could relate to. Her imperfections made her appealing because of the sense of desperate humanity in her narration. Celie made the book because without her the reader would not have understood the significance of telling someone… of telling someone about your life.
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