kids, and besides, she will bring the cow she was raising along. It's not so much that he wants a relationship, he just wants someone to take care of things for him so he doesn't have to do much, and he wants something else when he wants it. Her father even tells Mr. ____ that "She ugly... But she ain't no stranger to hard work. And she clean. And God fixed her. You can do everything just like you want to and she ain't gonna make you feed it or clothe it." (Page 9)
             As soon as she is married, Mr. _____ abuses her. She has to work the fields, raise his children (one of which splits her head open with a rock on the day she gets married), and endure beatings whenever he gets mad about something and wants to take it out on her. One time when Mr. _____ is asked by his son Harpo why he beats Celie, he tells him "Cause she my wife. Plus, she stubborn. All women good for– he don't finish." Later, she tells God about how "He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man." (Page 23)
             And so life goes on for Celie, until she meets a couple of women that change her life around. The first woman she meets is Sophia, who marries Harpo. She isn't afraid to stand up for herself, even to a man. When Mr. _____ asks Harpo if he ever hits her, Harpo is embarrassed, and answers that he hasn't. So Mr. ______ tells him he should, because "Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got t
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