This article illustrates the trauma that faces the female characters in the two novels The Color and The Bluest. It reflects the psychoanalytic symptoms of the traumatized characters. Moreover, the different attitudes of the characters towards their traumas are shown.
The Color is written by the Afro-American writer, Alice Walker. She won the Pultizer Prize in 1983 for The Color which is written in epistolary form. It is about Celie, a young girl who gets raped by her stepfather. The novel reflects Celie's suffering as it expresses how trauma changes her life. The Bluest is written by the Afro-American writer Toni Morrison. It is about Pecola a young girl who gets raped by her father. Depicting the miserable life of Pecola, Morrison also reflects her status as a black girl in a white and black segregated society.
This article illustrates the trauma that faces the female characters in the two novels The Color and The Bluest. It reflects the psychoanalytic symptoms of the traumatized characters. Moreover, the different attitudes of the characters towards their traumas are shown.