The color purple: Alice Walker: Chapter 4
Harpo went and brought Sofia and the baby home. They got married in Sofia's sister's house. Sister’s husband stands up with Harpo. Another sister sneaks away from home to stand up with Sofia. Another sister comes to hold the baby. Say he cries right through the service, his mama stops everything to nurse him. Finish saying I do with a big ole nursing boy in her arms. Harpo fixes up the little creek house for him and his family. Mr. _____ daddy used it for a shed. But it sounds. Got windows now, a porch, back door. Plus it is cool and green down by the creek. He asked me to make some curtains and I make some out of a flour sack. It is not big, but it is homey. Got a bed, a dresser, a looking glass, and some chairs. Cookstove for cooking and heating, too. Harpo daddy gives him wages for working now. He says Harpo wasn’t working hard as he should. Maybe little money goose his interest. Harpo told me, Miss Celie, I’m going on strike. On what? I ain’t going to work. And he doesn’t. He comes to the field, pulls two ears of corn, and lets the birds and weevil eat two hundred. We don’t make anything much this year. But now Sofia coming, he is always busy. He chops, he hammer, he plows. He sings and whistles. Sofia looks half her size. But she is still a big strong girl. Arms got muscle. Legs, too.