Myra King asked this question about
The Color Purple:
Did anyone else notice that the timeline is wrong? Sophia goes to jail after having 6 children. That's at least 6 years right there, and on top of that she only came to the family at least three years after Celie did. So we can assume that a decade has passed between the time Nellie visited the family and Sophia works as a maid. And yet Nellie writes that she saw Sophia as a maid only a few weeks after leaving.
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