Style

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

The Color Purple: Style 1 key example

Letter 55
Explanation and Analysis:

The Color Purple is stylistically an epistolary novel, written principally as a series of letters between major characters. This is important to the novel because the letters include aspects of dialect and educational background that are important to understanding character and setting. One can tell the difference between Celie's writing and Nettie's, for instance: Celie uses dialect more heavily, while Nettie, probably because she has reached a higher education level, uses dialect more sparingly.