The Parable of the Color PurpleAccording to Scholl's article, Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a parable. In classifying a story as a parable, Scholl determines that a parable must be a "movement through a realistically improbable sequence of narrative reversals toward a conclusion that defies realistic expectations." (Scholl, 255) These reversals are very evident throughout the novel and make the conclusion unrealistic. In almost every character there is an ironic reversal of what should happen and what does. Along with the main character Celie, she overcomes the difficulties of her childhood and marriage to achieve complete happiness. Her childhood consists of a father who rapes her and gives away her children. He also entrusts her to a man known as Mr. ___. He also beats her and does not allow her to see her sister, Nettie. Célie falls in love with another woman who allows her to start her life again. Shug Avery takes her away from her husband, Mr. ___, and allows her to begin her own financially independent life, as a pants producer. The only thing Celie lacks to succeed...