Chicken and Pie Pauline Breedlove's twin siblings, who were under her care before she married Cholly Breedlove. Fisher The well-to-do white couple who employ Pauline as their maid and brag that she is the "ideal servant. Yacobowski A fifty-two-year-old white immigrant who owns the neighborhood candy store.
Previous About The Bluest Eye. Next Fragment 1. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison. Character List Pecola Breedlove For the most part, Pecola is a passive, plain young black girl about eleven years old, who is befriended by Claudia and Frieda MacTeer after county officials place her temporarily in their home.
According to Morrison, Geraldine is one of those blacks who "when they wear lipstick. Her quest for upward social mobility encompasses a self-hatred that makes her avoid all reminders of her African heritage.
Geraldine measures out her emotions: Her son, Junior, is bathed and slathered with white lotion, and her husband, Louis, is granted a finite amount of sex, as long as he doesn't touch her too much.
Only the blue-eyed black cat kindles any real affection within her. Thus Junior develops a malignant jealousy, a cruel sibling rivalry toward the cat. Not allowed to play with blacks, and not accepted by whites, he has learned to vent his frustration by bullying young girls and abusing his mother's blue-eyed black cat. On a rare day when Geraldine is out of the house, Junior spies Pecola walking alone and invites her in to see some kittens.
Once she is inside the house, he hurls his mother's black cat in her face. He considers the playground his territory. He longs to play with other black boys but his mom won't let him because she thinks they are no good.
One day Junior sees Pecola walking past the playground. He walks up and asks her if she wants to come to his house to see some kittens. Pecola goes to the house and falls in love with the lace doilies everywhere and how nice everything is.
Junior leads Pecola further into the house. He picks up Geraldine's cat and throws it in Pecola's face. The cat shrieks and scratches Pecola in the face. Pecola begins to cry and tries to leave the house, but Junior blocks the door. He tells her she is his prisoner now. Junior locks her in the room with the cat.
White kids; his mother did not like him to play with niggers. She had explained to him the difference between colored people and niggers.
They were easily identifiable. Colored people were neat and quiet; niggers were dirty and loud… The line between colored and nigger was not always clear; subtle and telltale signs threatened to erode it, and the watch had to be constant. The Bluest Eye. Plot Summary. All Themes Beauty vs. All Symbols Blue Eyes Marigolds. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts.
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