In the summer section of the novel “The Bluest Eyes” by Toni Morrison we are introduced to Pecola’s imaginary friend. The imaginary friend is attacking Pecola for looking in the mirror too long saying she is obsessed with her new eyes. Pecola tells her new friend now that she has blue eyes everyone is jealous of them and won’t even look at her, not even Mrs. Breedlove. Pecola asks her imaginary friend why weren’t they friends before her new eyes and the friend replies that Pecola didn’t need her before. Than the friend starts to talk about Cholly, insinuating Mrs. Breedlove misses him because they had sex a lot and Pecola tells the friend her mother doesn’t miss him, he made her do those things.
The friend than replies to Pecola “like he made you” and Pecola gets mad saying stop talking about it because she doesn’t like to talk about dirty things. After Pecola and her friend stops talking the novel goes back to Claudia narrating the story and describing Pecola’s madness. She now strolls down the street jerking her arms like she’s trying to fly and Claudia and Frieda feels like they have failed …show more content…
Breedlove doesn’t see her new friend. Pecola’s eyes are ironic to me, she wanted the bluest eyes so that people would tell her how beautiful she is and she wanted a connection with the people around her. Since she has gotten “blue eyes” she no longer recognize the outside world, and she is more invisible to others now than she was before. Pecola imagines a friend for herself, which is isolating her from the real world rather than reconnecting her to it. She does not escape the fact that she is still jealous of what others have, she requires regular reassurance, Claudia understand that Pecola was someone the community used to exorcise their own self-hatred by hating Pecola. Claudia feels Pecola’s ugliness gave her community a false sense of
The friend than replies to Pecola “like he made you” and Pecola gets mad saying stop talking about it because she doesn’t like to talk about dirty things. After Pecola and her friend stops talking the novel goes back to Claudia narrating the story and describing Pecola’s madness. She now strolls down the street jerking her arms like she’s trying to fly and Claudia and Frieda feels like they have failed …show more content…
Breedlove doesn’t see her new friend. Pecola’s eyes are ironic to me, she wanted the bluest eyes so that people would tell her how beautiful she is and she wanted a connection with the people around her. Since she has gotten “blue eyes” she no longer recognize the outside world, and she is more invisible to others now than she was before. Pecola imagines a friend for herself, which is isolating her from the real world rather than reconnecting her to it. She does not escape the fact that she is still jealous of what others have, she requires regular reassurance, Claudia understand that Pecola was someone the community used to exorcise their own self-hatred by hating Pecola. Claudia feels Pecola’s ugliness gave her community a false sense of