In The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver paints a picture of a world-weary, sarcastic Adah Price. The author gets this accomplished through various depictions of Adah’s beliefs, such as her convictions on Christian hypocrisy which stems from her self-absorbed father, Nathan Price. Her father, as well as other injustices in society, leads her to question God’s power and his ability to speak on all things unjust.

Furthermore, present-day society is so concerned with its own needs that man puts off that other people are suffering infinitely more similar to Nathan Price. His distort sense of Christianity forced him to put his family needs to the side even though they were suffering mentally and physically which is why Adah views her father the way