Who Is Mrs. Breedlove And The Family Compared To Cholly's?

The closeness of Mrs. Breedlove and the family compared to that of Cholly’s is undeniably different. While Mrs. Breedlove did most family chores, took care of the children when sick, and stayed with Pecold throughout the pregnancy, Cholly was distant, went to work at a factory, and abandoned his family. Mrs. Breedlove took care of Cholly as well. Only due to the fact she felt “god wanted her to punish” Cholly for his sins. Cholly was an alcoholic, abuser, raper, and a no good father. Mrs. Breedlove did not necessarily win mother of the year either, but she was there and tending to things. Women were expected to care for a household and children while men did as they pleased because they were looked at as superior. The longer the women did this the larger the man’s ego became and more often forced his wife into this suppressive lifestyle. Pecola is picked on by little boys on the playground due to her weakness and femininity. The boys chant “Black e mo Black e mo Ya daddy …show more content…
When Frieda is touched inappropriately she assumes she will be a fat drunk whore because of the way her mother talks about Maginot Line, China, and Poland. Friedas mom calls the three whores ruined, after Frieda is touched Miss Dunion says “Mama should take (her) to a doctor, because (she) might be ruined” (Morrison 101). The town women also bash Pecola for her misfortune of getting pregnant with her father's baby. Claudia and Frieda overheard women say things like “how come she didn’t fight him?” that the baby “probably won't live. They say with the way her mama beats her she lick to be alive herself” and “She’d be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking” (Morrison 189). The way women talk about other women in such a demeaning sense makes it hard for men to look at women like dirt as well, because women will not stand