Reviewing The Bluest Eye Of Pecola

"The dandelions at the base of the telephone pole. Why, [Pecola] wonders, do people call them weeds? [Pecola] thought they were pretty" (Morrison, 37). "Nobody loves … dandelion" (38). Pecola Breedlove, in the novel The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, believes she is just like the dandelions, "…ugly" (39) and nobody liked or wanted her. Pecola, a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes, desperately yearns for "… blue eyes of a little white girl…" (137). Pecola, lives a life fraught with of violence and the belief that she is ugly and unwanted.Pecola's father, Cholly, now jailed for burning down their home and beating his wife; Pecola moves in with the MacTeer Family.

Immediately becoming friends with Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, they share their secrets, desires and even the same bed.

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