The Color Purple Shug Character Analysis

Life in Southern America as we know wasn's the easiest in the past, where the patriarchy ruled and women found themselves under appreciated. kind of left at the mercy of men. Some chose to fight back and stand for themselves, but most ended up lost as slaves to their husbands. Celie clearly belonged to the second group. In such tough life, she always was a follower, she never stood up for herself. A total opposite of that, belonging to the 1st group, was Shug. Celie first came across to know Shug from a picture she found. Ever since that first glance she felt a sudden burst of admiration. In her eyes she was a role model. Shug was what Celie forever dreamed of being. Later on when she actually met Shug that admiration didn't disappear but it
When Shug was there her husband didn't beat her and treated her slightly different, slightly nicer. Celie's relationship with Shug started of with Celie seeing that mother-figure in her, ever since the first time she saw her picture. It evolves with them sharing everyday problems and feeling, doing everyday things together where they felt a sisterhood bond. The emotional and physical gap Celie felt ever since Nettie left her was fulfilled with the presence of Shug. When Shug found the letters Nettie had sent to Celie, that meant the world to her, Shug's value in Celie's like grew even bigger, making Shug become the saver of her lost relationship with the person she sacrificed for and loved the most. The culmination of Celie and Shug's relationship came when the feelings of sisters-love turned into something more. They turned to feeling of just pure love, the love which Celie was supposed to feel about her other half, about the man in her life but it turned out that it was a woman. A woman that made her happy, which was a feeling she had kind of given up on and didn't have hopes about. That sparkle of hope that was awaken by