Women’s friendship in Alice Walker’s the color purple

Abstract EN

Alice Malsenior Walker is an African-American novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, biographer, and activist.

She writes at length on the social issues of race and gender, and is most known for her famous novel The Color Purple, for which she wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The aim of this paper is to examine women friendship and to trace the effect of friendship among the characters in the novel.