“The eyes, the small eyes set closely together under narrow foreheads. The low, irregular hairlines, which seemed even more irregular in contrast to the straight, heavy eyebrows which nearly met. Keen but crooked noses, with insolent nostrils. They had high cheekbones, and their ears turned forward. Shapely lips which called attention not to themselves but to the rest of the face. You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly.”(39) The Breedlove are nothing similar to the white, blue-eyed, dolls. Their physical differences have made them therefore ugly. Because of this shame in appearance, Pecola is disgusted towards her physical traits and uses them as an excuse to her daily problems: conflicts at home and at school.
"Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike. She was the only member of her class who sat alone at a double desk." (45) Naively, Pecola thinks that the only reason there is to her isolation is because of her ugliness. Instead, it was racial segregation and discrimination that caused it. However, because of these things, one could say that the Pecola was a bit right. Society's regard for beauty and acceptance was solely based on the Caucasian race. Morrison's reason for the Breedlove's description was to show the inferiority of the African-Americans during those times.
It seems Morrison is portraying life as an African-American through esthetics and the experiences of Pecola, who is just going through emotional and physical change, coincidentally connected to the African-American culture, who too is experiencing these changes.
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