![]() ![]() ![]() Tashi expresses hope the doctor will cure her. Tashi then describes being in psychoanalysis and telling the story of her sister, Dura, who once put a burning twig into her mouth and then cried for help, but none of the adults helped her. Olivia, Tashi’s sister-in-law and lifelong friend, takes over the narration, explaining that Tashi often uses stories like these to communicate. At the start of the novel, Tashi says, “I did not realize for a long time that I was dead.” Then she tells a story about an unloved female panther forced into an unhappy co-marriage with a male and a female panther that are in love with each other, and how the unloved panther eventually commits suicide. Tashi, who struggles with mental illness, is an unreliable narrator. Walker uses a different storytelling approach in this novel, which is composed of several lengthy interior monologues broken up by occasional letters received by the characters. In The Color Purple, Tashi undergoes the traditional African rite of female circumcision and facial scarring Adam also has his face scarred to show his devotion. Alice Walker’s novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) focuses on Tashi, a minor character from Walker’s earlier and more famous novel, The Color Purple, who marries Adam, Celie’s son. ![]()
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