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            The Breedlove family has moved from the rural south to urban Lorain, Ohio, and the displacement, in addition to grinding work conditions and poverty, contributes to the family dysfunction. The story is told from the perspectives of the sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's goes through four seasons and traces the Pecola's descent into madness. Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves" misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have the "bluest eyes". Throughout time, black males have always been at a disadvantage in whatever they wanted to do. In Toni Morrison's book the Bluest Eye we will see how Cholly demonstrates "that disadvantage" that he goes through all his life and how because of that he is lead to being a cold person. .
             Cholly has a bad temper, he is a drunk, he also has an hatred for white people. As you already know that it was really nothing serious between the girls and boys. Cholly and Jake just started to flirt with Darlene and Suky. He started demonstrating an poor attitude at all times the night of his Aunt's Jimmy's brother's funeral when he was caught having sexual intercourse with Darlene. That's why he started drinking and having a bad temper. Cholly feels hatred well up inside him, not for the white men but for Darlene whom he associates with his shame. .
             "There was no place for Cholly's eyes to go. They slid about furtively searching for shelter, while his body remained paralyzed. The flashlight man lifted his gun down from his shoulder, and Cholly heard the clop of metal."(Bluest Eye, 148) .
             As you well know Cholly then left to go to Macon so he could find his father. He then finds freedom being there because he ran away and there was no one there to tell him what to do. He was free to be gentle, cruel, drunk, abusive or silly if he chose. He then meets Pauline and he is again happy but when he realizes that he must carry the "sheer weight of sameness" while being married, he is lead to being despair and becoming a drunk.


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