Alice Malsenior Walker is an African-American author and feminist.

Her works focus on the

role of women of color in culture and history. She is an open bisexual, and sympathetic
towards people of all sexualities, ethnicities, and races. She has described how both the
African-American men and women have faced oppression in terms of race, class, and
ethnicity. The Color Purple has represented the very bottom structure of the society. Walker
not only describes the oppression and suffering of black women but also suggests certain
solutions for these tribulations in the novel. Female characters such as Celie, Shug, Nettie
and Sofia in The Color Purple are dominated both psychologically and physically.Celie, the
downtrodden, degraded, despised, abused, is transformed into and independent and
liberated woman at the end of the novel. She has moved from being ugly to a figuratively
beautiful swan. She has moved from being the beast of burden to physical and mental
declarations of independence, to a reunion with her children and her sister. This article
explores the important feministic issues and analyzes the protagonist, Celie in the novel The
Color Purple. Over the centuries, the role of men and women are regarded according to
their societies? perception of living.