... -American girls: low self-esteem and envy of whiteness. Clearly, the desire to escape poverty and the limiting circumstances of their social conditions is a common feeling among the characters in the novel. Several characters construct and perpetuate fantasies or beliefs about transcending their circumstances. For Pecola, a belief that if she had blue eyes she would have an ideal life guides her; for ... we can see the influence of corrupt values on African-American women and how the pressures their presented with yields great consequences for their sanity. The important message for the r...

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