... Morrison shows how popular culture played a major part in Pecola's desire for blue eyes. " A little black girl yearns for the blues eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment."(204). Morrison expresses how Pecola's futile longing for the "bluest ... standards. And because she saw herself far away from that scale of beauty, she began to hate herself. Pauline worked for a wealthy white family. She idolized the family and their white ways. She adores their little blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter. "Her calling Mrs. B...

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... by her family. She has one son, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. According the Jing-Mei, Aiyi looks ancient, shrunken, like a mummified relic. She is very small with thin white hair and brown decaying teeth. « Wang Fuchi was Suyuan's first husband as well as the father of the twins. He was a Chinese soldier stationed in ChungKing during the war ... . The room accommodates everything an American would recognize which makes Jing-Mei question the communism of China. The room is equip with a color television with a remote control, the bathroom has marble walls and floors; th...

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