The greatest influence on a young girl is that of her mother. A girl’s mother is her first female role model, and often times the most crucial one to the development of the girl’s personality. Pecola Breedlove is no different; she takes after her mother’s love of white culture, and resulting hatred of themselves. Pecola’s mother, Pauline Breedlove, sees no beauty in herself or in anything else in her life: her home, her marriage, or her daughter. She despises her own home, but loves the white household in which she works. She’s in an abusive marriage, but she reconciles this by believing that love and happiness is reserved fo

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family during the Depression, but perhaps the main idea to take away from the reading of this novel is how easy it is to lose one’s innocence. Pecola was not born hating the way she looked, she was taught to hate herself through the influence of those around her. “How do you get someone to love you”, was the question posed by Pecola; the answer, unfortunately, for this young, black girl was something impossible for her to achieve and drove her to madness.

r the beautiful people, the white people. And she hates her daughter for the same reason she hates herself, her ugly black skin. This hatred and neglect of Pecola by her mother is evident in the scene that takes place in the opening chapter of the book, where Pecola is found to be “ministratin” by Claudia and Frieda. Pecola did not have a clue what was happening to her and the reason for this is obvious, her mother did not care enough about her to teach a basic life lesson. Later on in the novel, her mother calls Pecola a “nasty little black bitch”, not only is this harsh language for a mother to use with a child but the usage of “black” shows Pauline’s hatred of her own skin. As all children, Pecola was also inf

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