![]() ![]() A.W., author and medium." This last line is an admission by the author that she has indeed been present throughout-and so has the audience, the book's readers. Interestingly, another line appears after Celie’s last letter: "I thank everybody in this book for coming. Perhaps this is the author, Alice Walker herself, signaling that she is present in the novel. ![]() Much more likely, someone else has written the line. It is also strange that the line is in italics, which is a formal, even academic way of drawing attention to a spoken line. ![]() If it is Celie's doing, she strangely never repeats this way of recording dialogue. It is never made clear whether or not the first line, spoken by Alfonso, has also been written down by Celie before she starts her letter to God or whether it represents another writer’s hand. The presentation of everything is under Celie's control, although she permits Nettie's letters to present Nettie's perspective. The first line of the novel is the only line of direct speech and the only line which falls outside the framework of the letters written by Celie and Nettie. ![]()
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