Since the beginning of the novel, unlike the other girls, Pecola is already self-conscious about her appearance. She envies girls with blonde hair and blue eyes, like the famous Shirley Temple. All Pecola has ever known is rejection, her desire for beauty is fixated on the beauty of white, she genuinely believes that if she had that kind of beauty the fortune in her life would be entirely different. In the chapter where Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove are fighting in front of Pecola and her brother, Pecola imagines herself vanishing but the only part of her that does not disappear are her eyes. She wonders why no one ever sees her, she wonders why no one ever remembers anything about her and she convinces herself that it is because of her "ugliness".
Towards the end of the novel, the narrator makes a statement on love and physical beauty that describes the rejection Pecola feels:
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another-physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought."
Pecola's longing desire for romantic love and physical beauty is caused by a life filled with pain and rejection, however, the superficial meaning of physical beauty she believes in brings her further pain.
Towards the end of the novel, the narrator makes a statement on love and physical beauty that describes the rejection Pecola feels:
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another-physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought."
Pecola's longing desire for romantic love and physical beauty is caused by a life filled with pain and rejection, however, the superficial meaning of physical beauty she believes in brings her further pain.
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