Sexuality of Celie

Brian Donovan

"I hate the way I look, I hate the way I'm dress.  Nothing but church going cloths in my chifferobe.  and Mr.______ looking at Shug's bright black skin, in her tight red dress, her feet in little sassy red shoes.  Her hair shining in waves.  But i know it, tears meet under my chin.  And i'm confuse.  He love looking at Shug. I love looking at Shug.  But Shug don't love looking at bit one of us.  Him. But that the way it supposed to be.  I know that. But if that so, why my heart hurt me so?  My head droop so near bout in my glass.  Then i hear my name. Shug say-in Celie.  Miss Celie.  And I look up where she at.  She say my name again.  She say this song I'm bout to sing is call Miss Celie's song.  Cause she scratched it out of my head when i was sick."

         This passage demonstrates Celie's confused feelings she is expiriencing for Shug.  In the beging if the quote she describes her as being bright black as in white or tan and she sais she has wavy hair like a white woman.  This implies that, even if Shug is African american, she looks like a white woman and she may have had a white parent giving her these quality s different from african americans.  The disconnect between a man and a woman can be related to the racial disconnect between Celie underlyingly described Shug in the passage.  Furthermore, due to Celies religious views she thinks that being a lesbian is wrong even though she has these strong feelings for her and she is confused even though due to her background with abuse from men and her observations of a man's superiority to her she doesn't like them naturally.  Then at the end of the quote when shug sais Ceilies name at this time when Cilie is deep in thought about the matter represents how The author is making the reader understand Celies reasons for being sexualy attracted to Shug and to an extent foreshadows a future concerning thier relationship.