Frieda is about ten years old when the story takes place. Frieda is a lot like her sister and had the same morals imposed on her by her mother.
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She takes apart the white dolls to try and discover the dearness that other people see in the dolls (Vasquez, 2014)Ĭlaudia has learned from her mother how to be a strong black female and express her opinion in a white dominated society. She isn’t like the other girls who think it would be better if she was white, she doesn’t buy into that idea and she destroys the white dolls that she receives for Christmas. Claudia is black and doesn’t see anything wrong with that. She is about nine years old when they story takes place and is remembering the story. Claudia MacTeer is the main narrator in the story.
His great aunt saves him and raises him until her death, which occurred when Cholly was only thirteen or fourteen years old.Ĭholly himself deserts his family, not physically but he is always in a drunken state and doesn’t provide the family with the barest necessities. He has never known a loving family his father deserted him and his mother who then left him to die in a garbage can. Cholly Breedlove is Pecola’s drunken father. Her mother doesn’t care for her either, her actions toward Pecola are not without contempt. Throughout the book we see how Pecola is picked on by other children her age and then later on abused by Cholly, her own father. She doesn’t have many friends other than Claudia and Frieda. In the end that desire is what finishes her, she believes that God gave her blue yes causing her to become insane. Her innermost desire is to have the “bluest” (Morrison, 2007) eyes so that others will view her as pretty because that is what the white people have. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves.
Analytical Essay Robert Ziglar Rasmussen College Authors Note: This paper being submitted for American Literature as a final project on JAnalytical Essay The main characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer (Morrison, 2007).
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