She believes that if she had blue eyes, their beauty would inspire beautiful and kindly behavior on the part of others. Pecola Breedlove is a young girl growing up black and poor in the early s. What traumatized Cholly in his younger days? He was humiliated by two white men during his first sexual experience. He has experienced genuine suffering, having been abandoned in a junk heap as a baby and having suffered humiliation at the hands of white men.
We are told that their meanness to Pecola is an expression of their own self-hatred. Then Aunt Jimmy gets sick. She prescribes pot liquor, and Aunt Jimmy begins to improve, but then she eats a peach cobbler and dies. Answer and Explanation: Although The Bluest Eye was added to university reading lists and remains a very popular work by Toni Morrison, the novel did not receive any awards in itself.
Maureen is a snobby, uppity light-skinned girl with money who is new to the neighborhood. Maureen comes to symbolize a different kind of black family — the upwardly mobile, light-skinned African-American family that disdains darker-skinned black people.
Claudia explains that she has always hated Shirley Temple and also the blonde, blue-eyed baby doll that she was given for Christmas. She explains that her hatred of dolls turned into a hatred of little white girls and then into a false love of whiteness and cleanliness.
Claudia and her older sister, Frieda, have learned their life lessons from their mother. They have learned how to be strong black females who can fight back and not be overwhelmed and brainwashed by standards of beauty imposed on them by white and black women. Winter is traditionally associated with barrenness, empitness, and death.
In winter, the girls become acquainted with Maureen Peal. She serves as a reminder to them that without beauty that will bring acceptance, their lives will remain empty and barren in white society. Why does Maureen start a conversation with Claudia? She was her sister. Chapter 10 Quotes. Related Symbols: Blue Eyes. Related Themes: Beauty vs.
Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 4. Maureen is a light skinned black girl with green eyes.
She comes from a Claudia and Frieda are "bemused, irritated and fascinated" by Maureen Peal. Her expensive clothing and plentiful lunches shame the girls' ragged clothing and meager lunches Maureen is assigned the locker next to Claudia's. Claudia knows she is about to become friends Before he can swing, Maureen steps forward beside Claudia and stops the violence. Claudia suggests that the boys did not After the altercation, Maureen takes Pecola's arm and introduces herself.
When Pecola tells Maureen her name, Maureen responds that Maureen offers to buy Pecola an ice cream at Isaley's. As they walk, Claudia thinks about In short, Maureen is not really pretty because she has yellowish skin, dark and slanted green eyes, and a fang-like tooth exposed when she smiles. However, being much lighter than all the other black children, she is prized and envied by most of them.
Claudia and her older sister, Frieda, do not adulate Maureen. Claudia relates to her in much the same way that she related to a white baby doll that was given to her one Christmas. At first, she tries to rob Maureen of her power by dismembering her name and calling her "Meringue Pie.
And you ugly! The black boys who torment Pecola do so because of their lack of self-worth. They see their own blackness and their own ugliness in Pecola. Because they have been successfully brainwashed by ubiquitous and subtle pro-white propaganda to despise all that is black, they set upon Pecola as if they were trying to exorcise their own blackness. References to the icons of Hollywood's white standards of beauty abound: Betty Grable's appearing at the Dreamland Theater is mentioned, and Hedy Lamarr's name is casually thrown into a conversation when Maureen insults black females who would dare to request a hairstyle like Hedy Lamarr's when they know they'll never have hair like that.
Henry uses the names of Ginger Rogers and Greta Garbo as pet names for Claudia and Frieda, as if being called by the names of these famous white beauties would be perceived as a great compliment. In addition to the all-pervasive white notion of what constitutes beauty, we hear about adult deception in this chapter.
Both Claudia and Frieda are disappointed in Mr.
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