Pecola

Pecola, the daughter of Ms. Breedlove, is the most accurate decription of ugly. Why is this though? To understand why she is/feels ugly we have to go to her roots. Ms. Breedlove is no shining beacon on perfection, in fact is herself is also ugly. When Ms. Breedlove was young she had some life changing accidents; one included her getting a nail impaled into the bottom of her foot, thus acquiring a slight limp; at this point by her definition of beauty, she was "ugly". Pecola is born and the ugliness is pasted on to her, so to speak. Ms. Breedlove even considered her own daughter to be ugly so in Pecolas mind she was ugly. This feeling was intensified when she sees the images of Mary Jane, a white girl who she idolizes. Since she cannot achieve that form of beauty she, in her mind, would always be ugly.