_ still likes Nettie and compliments her often, but she just passes the compliments toward Celie. Nettie spends her time helping Celie with the chores and teaching Celie and the kids. Nettie runs away from home and stays with Celie. The girl has been officially named Pauline by the Reverend and his wife, but because she looks so much like an Olivia, they call her Olivia. The two women talk, and Celie asks how old the child is and what the lady and her husband call her. _, to pick them up, but he is not showing up, so Celie offers them a lift. Olivia’s new mother is waiting for her husband, The Reverend Mr. She talks to the girl’s new mother in the store. She remembers that she called the child Olivia. _ as well.Īs she is going into town on the wagon, Celie spots a girl who she knows is her own little girl she knows because the child looks just like her and her father. She then imagines Shug Avery, knowing that Shug has had sex with Mr. That night as the marriage is consummated, Celie thinks of Nettie, hoping that she is safe. Celie spends hours detangling the girls’ matted hair, and they cry and curse her. Celie’s new husband actually has four children. He pelts his father’s new wife with rocks, and Celie bleeds.
He has been disturbed after his mother died in his arms. On her wedding day, Celie is chased by Mr. Newly married, however, Celie will have to start domestic work at Mr. She teaches Celie while she can since Celie was taken out of school by her father when she first got pregnant. Nettie now understands that the only way she is going to escape is by working hard at her schoolwork. Eventually he agrees to marry Celie on the condition that he can have the cow he was promised as well. _ spends three months from March to June making up his mind. Even though she is ugly, Alfonso says, she will make the better wife.
_ comes again to ask for Nettie’s hand, but Alfonso still refuses to let her go, saying that he can have Celie instead. Celie and the new wife cry indoors while Nettie tends to them. Nettie is terrified and goes outside to vomit.
Nettie and Alfonso’s new wife both come to realize what he is doing to Celie.
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