Pecola chooses to hide from her disabling life behind her clouded dream of possessing the ever so cherished “bluest of eyes”. The Breedlove’s constant bickering and ever growing poverty contributes to the emotional downfall of this little girl. Pecola’s misery is caused through the touch of her father’s hand and of her community’s struggle with racial separation, anger, and ignorance. Her innocence is harshly ripped from her grasp as her father rapes her sad existence. The community’s anger with it’s own insecurities is taken out on this poor, ugly, black, non-ideal, young girl. She shields herself from this sorrow behind her obsessive wanting for blue eyes. But her eyes do not replace the pain of carrying her own father’s baby. Nor do they protect

This does not help Pecola‘s emotional state. She thinks that she has magically gotten blue eyes and she is now just as beautiful as the girl on the cup. She decides that the reason her neighbors refuse to talk to her is because they are resentful of her imaginary eyes. “I’d just like to do something else besides watch you stare in that mirror. You’re just jealous. I am not. You are. You wish you had them. Ha. What would I look like with blue eyes? Nothing much”(194). In Pecola’s world, jealousy is what keeps everyone away. This concept of beauty is driving her into a world of delusion. In order for Pecola to be happy, she creates the dream of being beautiful. She assumes that there is no beauty to be found within her thin, black, little self. So she generates the idea that if she possesses the ideal blue eyes, people will start looking at her with the same respect and love as the rich white girls.

As many people now a-days do, Pauline relies on the movies to dictate to her who was beautiful, and who was not. This forces Pauline to immediately decide whom she would care for and whom she would ignore. Since her daughter, Pe

Some topics in this essay:
Pauline Pecola’s, Breedlove Pecola, Maureen Peal, Claudia Frieda, Toni Morrison, Eyes Beauty, Peal Enemy, Maureen Peals, blue eyes, beauty found, claudia frieda, maureen peal, black non-ideal,