Week #3 Blog

From this week's lesson on the book, "The Bluest Eyes," by Toni Morrison, I have learned that Pecola has a two-faced personality. What I mean by two-faced personality is that throughout Pecola's life, she has never felt wanted or loved. Since she is always feeling alone, she shows signs of anger, frustration, annoyance and etc. When a person feels so much frustration for always being alone, they tend to only have darkness surrounding them, as shown with Pecola. Pecola's desperate needs for finding people to pay attention to her brings the dark part of her personality. For example, Pecola shows the dark side of her personality when she always gives nicknames to people she likes or admires in the inside but outside she hates because she can't have what they have. An example, Maureen Peal is a person she admires because she has perfect everything (hair, skin, clothes and etc.), but Pecola ends up calling her "Meringue Pie". Therefore, Pecola's darkness from the outside and sweetness from the inside shows that she has a two-faced personality.