5/7/2023 0 Comments Maureen peal the bluest eye![]() When I started high school, I had wanted to wear a sailor uniform. And the shopkeeper who refused to acknowledge Pecola’s presence the black boys who took pleasure in teasing Pecola even Cholly Breedlove, who raped his own daughter-they were all, unmistakably, me. ![]() Claudia’s mother, who scolded her severely for taking apart the baby doll Pecola’s mother, who erected a castle of white beauty around the family she worked for the girls’ classmate Maureen Peal, who called them ugly-they were me too. ![]() The white baby doll that the narrator Claudia destroys-I wondered why everyone else was so fond of the doll, with its blue eyes and white skin and blonde hair? And why couldn’t she show such affection to herself? Why did Pecola want “the bluest eyes”? And why, then, did she have to be damaged in such a hideous way?Ĭlaudia and Pecola were me. ![]()
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