Protagonist of "The Bluest Eye"

The protagonist of The bluest eye, Pecola Breedlove, is a young black girl whose appearance are only described as ugly. The point of view of this book is usually third person, or narrated by the first person point of view of Claudia MacTeer, causing Pecola to be portrayed as a mysterious young ugly girl because her inner thoughts were never expressed. Though throughout her action and speech, it was evident that she contains some sort of self-hatred that runs through the Breedlove family. In the book, this notion of self-hatred is described as ugliness. This book thoroughly expressed women's pursuit of beauty, and the dominance some colors over others. This can be seen by the description of how Pecola longs for blue eyes, and how Maureen Peal, a young girl who has sloe green eyes screamed at them "I am cute! And you ugly!" Pecola, being the fragile young protagonist she is, hates what she was born with, and deliberately took the passive role to escape from reality. This escape route will eventually drive her to insanity like a one way trip.