Bitter Loving Toni Morrison negatively portrays parental love through the characters of Charles, known as Cholly, and Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest eye. Cholly Breedlove is dehumanized by his portrayal as a sex maniac in need of love, who is determined to obtain it at any cost. Pecola symbolizes the derivation of love. She is a victim of the lack of love in her father's childhood, and she herself ... Frieda answered, "Oh, somebody has to love you" (Morrison, 32). She soon learned that there were different forms of love. She discovered the wrong type of love with her father. It was a painful...

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