Pecola the Blue Eyed Girl

     As we finished the book and we can see an argument within Pecola about and everyone else.  There are differences in seeing and being seen. Blue eyes are used as a representation of a perfect life, she imagines that if she was blessed with blue eyes people would not want to do ugly things in front of  her or to her. her belief about her image makes her make sense of all the cruel things she experienced and saw in her life. The idea of how she looked became more clear when she was being bullied and she saw the treatment Maureen would get because of how attractive others believed she was. Although all the students and school and other characters have black skin, Pecola uses the eye as  something she wants to change. Instead of saying she want lighter skin, she wishes for blue eyes which in some way can change how she's sees the world and how others perceive her. To finally get blue eyes she has to make herself oblivious of not only the world around her but herself as well. By the end she gets her wish during her dementia and trauma of her hard life. Her connection of how she is seen and what she sees in herself is a crutch that denies her happiness in her own skin.