In my Comparitive Liturature class we are reading "The Color Purple". I'm about half way through it and it is a great book so far.
My teacher had us write a paper on how Alice Walker harshly portrayed black men in this book. But, while reading this book, there was not a single time where I thought of it as a "race" issue, I thought of it as a "man" issue and how men as a whole are portrayed. In that book it doesn't compare white men and black men because a large majority of the characters in this book are black. It portrayed men, and just men, badly. Throughout the book it tells how Celie (main character) is treated by all the men in her life. Her father raped her. Her husband doesn't love her and has a long-lasting love affair with Shug Avery (who Celie and her husband are both in love with). It shows men as awful, low-life scum. It doesn't say anything to make you think that she is portraying black men in a bad light.
Does anyone else see what I'm saying? Anyone dissagree?
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I agree. The few times white men are brought into it, they are also portrayed as bad.