The Color Purple

The end of this letter, Celie has learned a lot about who God is and who he is not. Her friend, Shug , enlightened her that God is not a man, but everything that surrounds them, like the flowers and trees. At the end of the letter, Celie is struggling to picture God as anything other than a white male. But the image is stuck in her head and is harder to get rid of than she thought it would be because that is the only image of God she has ever had. But she keeps on trying to get rid of the image and will keep on working at it until she can pray to God without seeing him as a man.
The reason she was turned off by God was because she pictured him as a male and he did not answer any of her prays or helped her in her life. Shug pointed out that men ruin everything; they try to convince everyone that they are the universe and are everything. When people start to believe that they are truly everything, people start to think they are even God. She suggested that every time Celie thinks of God shaped as a man, to erase the image immediately, and keep doing that until you can think of God as everything but a man.