The American Dream denotes the idea of a successful lifestyle, including being financially comfortable and feeling equal among peers. In the book, The Bluest Eye, Pecola represents a person looking to achieve the American Dream. She is greatly impacted by it, focusing on the fact that she believes you have to have light skin and blue eyes to be viewed as equal, or successful. She prayed for this, thinking this would bring her love, and acceptance, after living most of her life with abusive parents and in a society where blacks are clearly looked down on. This dream of hers was obviously unobtainable, but she would not give up. Pauline, Pecola’s mother, also looks to achieve this dream, but rather than trying to change herself, she surrounds
