In "The Bluest Eye", Pecola is a troubled child who grew up with parents who are not the best example to live up to be. Pecola gets thrown into a world where her father is an alcoholic and her mother loves to bring attention to herself in ways that make her seem like she does everything in the household. Pecola dread life in the house. She hates it completely. She gets swallowed up in her own thoughts of why she couldn't be born in a different way. She wished her parents would stop fighting and hoping that if she was prettier, then life wouldn't be so ugly. She was ugly and she knew it. It wasn't like her parents were the supportive type and tried to dissuade her that she was ugly. She believed that since she was ugly, her life was ugly.
People see her as one thing, ugly. People don't see her as a person but more of what she is on the outside. She yearns for blue eyes. Why does she want those blue eyes? Will blue eyes make her pretty since all the blue eyed girls she seen turn out to be pretty? Is it because it is a shade of color in her eyes that could change how her life is? I believe that Pecola yearns for blue eyes because she truly believes that having blue eyes will make her pretty and in turn, create a life different than the one she has now. Maybe, a set of blue eyes would have her parents notice her more and love her more. Maybe, a set of blue eyes could make her stop wanting to think of dying. Maybe, a set of blue eyes will have people like her more as a person and no one would bully her.
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