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Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple opens with the admonition: “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (Walker, 1982, p.1). This warning comes as “Pa” rapes Celie, his (step) daughter and the fourteen-year-old protagonist of the novel. Scholar Christine Froula (1986) writes that Pa’s warning robs Celie “in the name of her mother, of her story and voice” (p. 638). It is significant then that Pa rapes Celie when her mother is away from home, and visiting a sister. In his attempt to guarantee Celie’s silence, which in addition, burdens her with responsibility for her mother’s life and wellbeing (i.e. “It’d kill your mammy,”) Pa inadvertently provides Celie an outlet for her confusion, grief, and shame, “tell ... God”. Celie heeds Pa’s cautioning and pens her first letter

“Tell Nobody but God”: Reading Mothers, Sisters, and “The Father” in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple