First, Pecola Breedlove’s character as portrayed in the bluest eye is a very shy and timid girl who hides underneath her looks. Having always been told that she was ugly resulted in her viewing herself as inferior and looking to white skin or better yet blonde hair and blue eyes as true beauty. Her obsession begins with a small Shirley temple cup. In the first chapter of the book, Pecloa drinks several quarts of milk out the cup to ingesting the milk in hopes of becoming just like the girl on the cup. “She was a long time with the milk, and gazed fondly at the silhouette of Shirley temples dimpled face.”(Morrison 19). Shukla Bhasker goes to further explain how the female psyche can change based on what society views as correct. She does this
