The Color Purple has an overwhelming plot that follows a woman’s life through her dilemmas and a life that is predestined for hardships. her only means of survival are to accept her harsh reality. Celie's tales take us through a series of letters to God, some never sent, and many never received. The letters were her way of keeping her sanity in an abusive world, where only a few others cared to pay attention to her. The mid-point of her life comes after Celie's husband takes home the woman he has been crazy about for years - a feeble, alcoholic juke-box singer named Shug Avery, who has been destroyed by life but has managed to sustain everlasting beauty.
Shug's world is the world of the blues, with its earthy wisdom and sin
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