After having suffered a stroke, Della seems a bit crazy and Mr. Henry looks elsewhere to live. Peggy: A woman from Elyria. She is the woman whom Della Jones' husband supposedly ran off with. Hattie: Della Jones' sister. She is often made fun of, as she frequently grins absent-mindedly.
Aunt Julia: Della Jones' aunt. She is often made fun of for walking up and down the streets talking to herself. Yacobowski: The owner of the vegetable and meat store Pecola goes to for candy. She buys Mary Janes there, and realizes that Mr. Yacobowski does not even want to touch her hand when she reaches out to give him the money for the candy.
Pecola thinks he dislikes her because she is black and ugly. China, Poland, and Miss Marie: The three black prostitutes that live in the apartment above the Breedloves. Pecola often goes up there and talks to these women. They adore Pecola and make her feel comfortable. Dewey Prince: Marie's ex-boyfriend. She ran away with him when she was younger and she tells Pecola all about him. From this, Pecola wonders about love and what it must feel like.
Maureen Peal: New girl in school, she is a light-skinned black girl with long brown hair in two braids and dark green eyes. Classmates and teachers admire her, as her features are lighter than the average black person's. Claudia and Frieda are very jealous of her beauty, wealth, and charm. They even go so far as to search for and point out flaws that Maureen has to make her look bad, and make them feel good. They are ashamed of their own blackness, and thus take it out on Pecola, whom they see as ugly as themselves.
Geraldine: A socially conscious middle-class black. She is concerned only with white things, and does everything possible to disconnect herself from her African roots.
She mistreats her son, Louis Junior, as she prefers to give love and affection to her black cat with blue eyes. Louis Junior: Son of Geraldine.
He is neglected by his mother, who shows affection only to her blue-eyed black cat. Louis Junior is strongly affected by this neglect and takes it out on others, specifically Pecola.
She is their maid, and she idolizes everything they have and do, including their perfect little daughter. Pauline even shows their daughter more affection than her own daughter, Pecola. Chicken and Pie: Pauline Breedlove's two younger twin brothers. She took care of them while growing up, as their mother and father both worked. Aunt Jimmy: Cholly's great aunt. She was kind and loving and rescued Cholly from his mother as his mother was trying to get rid of him by leaving him on a trash heap.
She raised Cholly by herself. Samson Fuller: Cholly's birth father. He was never around, even when Cholly was born. Blue Jack: Older black man whom Cholly meets at one of his first jobs. They become great friends, and Blue even becomes a sort of father figure to Cholly. Cholly loves and respects Blue, and enjoys listening to Blue tell stories. M'Dear: An older woman who lived in shack near the woods, near Cholly's house, while growing up with Aunt Jimmy.
M'Dear was a midwife and was known for her knowledge of herbal medicine. MacTeer is singing the blues and fussing at her daughters, there is love throughout their house; in contrast, there is no love in Pecola's house.
Because of their mother's strengths and examples, both Claudia and Frieda are able to fight back against the forces that threaten to destroy them psychologically. Both girls resent the fact that not only white society but also black society values the Maureen Peals of the world. They realize that they must create their own self-worth in this world of beauty to which they don't belong.
Previous Pecola Breedlove. Next Pauline. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Walking home with the MacTeer sisters and Pecola one day, she starts out being civil but very quickly becomes haughty. She is the darling of teachers, and Claudia sees in her all of the social forces that she fears and despises. Claudia insists that the societal forces are more to be feared and hated than Maureen herself.
Yacobowski is a store owner who sells Pecola nine pieces of Mary Jane candy. Pecola can read in his eyes the impatience and disdain that he feels for her, and she internalizes all of it. Miss Dunion is a nosy neighbor who lives next door. When she insinuates that Mr. Henry might have "ruined" Frieda, she incites the wrath of Mrs. Great Aunt Jimmy is the woman who raised Cholly. She was already ancient when she took him in, right after he had been abandoned by his own mother.
She dies when Cholly is a young teenage boy. M'Dear is an old wise woman who comes to give Aunt Jimmy medical advice. She is a tall woman, and her authority is considered infallible. Sure enough, when Aunt Jimmy violates one of M'Dear's prescriptions, she dies. Samson is possibly Cholly's father. When Cholly is a young man, he tracks Samson down. Samson humiliates him and tells him to go away. Blue is the closest thing to a father figure in Cholly's early life.
He shares a watermelon heart with Cholly and it's one of the happiest moments Cholly ever knows. The Question and Answer section for Bluest Eye is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
What does the word "festers" mean? What does it communicate about the Breedlove household? Feester: To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
The prejudice and treatment that Pecola receives because of her skin color is called "colorism," a sister type of discrimination that has only recently been studied and researched. Bluest Eye- Autumn. Why does Maureen have a privilege status in the school community? How do colorism and classism cause this status? Maureen is light-skinned and wealthy.
The girls both admire her and are jealous of her. The girls admire her light skin and social status, and they are jealous of both.
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