You're right about that, money always means competition. Sofia is characterized that way to show that it's not right for women to settle being treated like that. In the men's eyes she's seen as disobedient, but to everyone else, she's seen as a women who is taking a stand for herself, because back then, not many women did. I also think she's characterized like that to maybe guide Celie to be more strong for herself.

Anyways moving on..

Celie discovered that Mr.____ had been taking all of the letters that Nettie, Celie's sister had been writing to her and keeping them hidden from Celie. Up until this point, Celie was sure that Nettie was dead because she never heard from her. In the letters Nettie was telling Celie how she needs to get away Mr.___ because he had tried to make a pass at Nettie and she refused and because she refused Mr.___ told her that Celie would never hear from her. Anways..in her letters Nettie described how she went to Africa and then New York. Hopefully they will soon be reunited..we'll find out..

Me too, the further I get into the book the more I can see how different is from his father. Which brings me to another point. Harpo begins to eat prefously when he's at home and then goes to Celie's house and eats more. One night Celie found him on the porch crying, complaining how Sofia, his wife, won't obey him and how she has the upperhand in the relationship and he doesn't. Which brings me to a point of how men, to this day, are so intimdated by the fact that in some cases, women are stonger than them, and are capeable of dealing with more than them. That of course, upsets them because in society men are supposed to be the ones who provide for their families and are looked up to, and the women are supposed to stay at home, cooking and cleaning and doing all of this with a great big smile on their faces; a very "Leave it to Beaver" scenario. But today, that's not how the story goes at all. Today in most cases, the men stay at home and the women go to work. And people aren't happy with that. It makes me wonder what the point of fighting for equal rights for women was..

Someone who could show Celie the light?

Yeah, in this book, all the main characters that are mentioned are African-American.

Well, continuing on...

Mr___. has a son, whose name is Harpo. Now Harpo has fallen in love with a girl, Sofia and has also gotten her pregnant at the age of 17. Well they have the child and they move in together and one night Celie overhears Harpo telling Mr.____ that Sofia doesn't listen to him, reasin being he doesn't beat her as was normal back then for the husbands to beat their wives so they can obey them. Reason being, if Harpo were to hit Sofia, she would hit him back. That to me, is funny and I think it's good for Celie. Because Celie is someone who won't fight for herself, she'd rather do as she's told just as long as she continues living. Whereas Sofia takes a stand for herself and holds no fear. I think this might be something good for Celie...