Analysis Of Mrs. Breedlove

I think this chapter is the most important in the story because it is the starting point of the rising action. The exposition ends here because now we know hove the Breedlove family functions on a day-to-day basis, and all of the major characters have been introduced. When Cholly Breedlove was a young teenager, he had a mortifying experience and was forced to keep going when he got caught by two white men. He blames many of his actions as an adult on that event, but his wife does not think it affected him that much, and that he just wants an excuse to do whatever he wants. Mrs. Breedlove and Cholly fight every single day, and many of the times it leads to physical violence. In this chapter, Mrs. Breedlove awakens Cholly and orders him to get some coal for the stove, because it runs out in the early hours of the day. Cholly yells …show more content…
She believes that people do not respect her or love her because she is ugly, and that it is all people see when they meet her. All the people she meets just see her close-set eyes, bushy eyebrows, and large lips. She eventually made herself believe that if she was just like the (white) little girls you see in the movies, that people would respect her and think that she is beautiful. Pecola decides that if she had the bluest eyes, she would be beautiful (hence the title). If she had pure blue eyes she wouldn’t be ignored or looked down upon, but she has evil brown eyes. While she is lying down in her bed with Cholly knocked out, she imagines her body dissolving, leaving just her brown eyes. The reason she imagines this is that whenever people meet her, she believes they just use their eyes. And her eyes are what she needs to change to that people don’t just use their eyes. I thought this was an incredibly important part in the book because it’s what the title revolves around, and a title has to have some kind of significance or else it wouldn’t be a