“to eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Pecola thinks that by eating the candy, she will become the little white Mary Jane. “Each night without fail, she prayed for blue eyes” (p34) “if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different” (p34) “if she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs Breedlove too.” (p34) The Mary Jane candy.
She believes that with blue eyes, she will be seen in a better light, and will see others differently. She wishes for blue eyes! 15ġ6 Eye symbolism. She wishes she had blue eyes, and becomes obsessed with this notion. She uses her ugliness as a shield to hide behind. Breedlove hushing and soothing the tears of the little pink-and-yellow girl.”Ībout Pecola First introduced in “Autumn” Living with the McTeer family due to her father (Cholly) burning her house She is 11 years old, and believes without question that she is ugly. “More and more she neglected her house, her children” “Here she found beauty, order, cleanliness and praise” “Mrs. Everything went then”ġ3 Belonging “She took the role of sole breadwinner” “Sammy used his ugliness as a weapon” “For support of a role she frequently imagined as hers- Martyrdom” “a front tooth gone. “Cholly was her crown of thorns” Very religious, Cholly is a test He is the origin of sin in her family The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls.” (p.15) The frustration and anger is shown here by Claudia asġ0 Early life “Her general feeling separateness and unworthiness she lamed on her foot” “She liked, most of all, to arrange things” “She was not only good at housekeeping, she enjoyed it.” “Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty.A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes.” (page 138) This shows that Claudia is longing for what she perceives as beauty as she is asking Soaphead church for him to give her this beauty and to no longer be black.ħ "Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike." This shows the length of time she sat looking at herself in the mirror wishing she wasn’t black as it permanently effected her social life and her education/īut the dismembering of dolls was not the true horror. “ Black boys didn’t trip her in the halls white boys didn’t stone her, white girls didn’t suck their teeth when she was assigned to be their work partners black girls stepped aside when she wanted to use the sink in the girls toilets, and their eyes genuflected under sliding lids”īy Hannah and Sam The bluest eye by Toni MorrisonĦ “Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty
“ except for the father, Cholly, whose ugliness was behaviour, the rest of the family- Mrs Breedlove, Sammy Breedlove, and Pecola Breedlove- wore their ugliness, put it on, so to speak, although it did not belong to them.” To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”ģ Cholly. 2 The Doll “I only had one desire: to dismember it.
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