Throughout The Bluest Eye, Pecola is the main major character despite Claudia’s perspectives within its story. I think Pecola is somewhat a symbol of the black community’s self hatred and belief in its own ugliness. She has this huge admiration and obsession of a white girl’s perfect yet flawless beautiful feature that she could never receive. Due to her insensible insecurities regarding herself, she was being abused and brought upon hatred by others, especially her family. All she desires and wants is to disappear from facing this emotional life she’s been undergoing through. Her life has been completely damaged by horrible violence from her appearance, race, social status, and so forth. Pecola’s only wish is to receive blue eyes for herself thinking she will no longer be abuse. That was her ‘logical’ reasoning or rather escape from her complication lifestyle.
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I agree with you, I think that the society has made her and the people around her belief that being black is not beautiful. So they critize in even more harshly those in their social class due to the lack of physical appearance or material possesions they believe they should have.
I definitely agree with you. Pecola represents the black community back in that time. She wished to have light skin and blue eyes so people do not abuse or treat her badly. She believes that if she had blue eyes and light skin, her life will turn around and be completely different from hustle she is leaving now.
I totally agree with you Rachel. Pecola does portray the black community at that period of time. I also think that Pecola’s parents also don’t know how to love her because they also lack love for each other. In the end all she (Pecola) wants is to be loved and not be ignore by others, specially her parents.