![]() ![]() The MacTeer family has two daughters: Claudia and Frieda. Pecola is sent to stay with the MacTeer family after her father tries to burn down the family’s home. ![]() She sees her husband and children as burdens. Not knowing how to meet those demands, Cholly drinks heavily, and Pauline fulfills her desires to be needed - and her secret desire to be white - by working for an affluent white family. After their marriage, Pauline depends heavily on Cholly to meet her emotional needs. She finds escape from her life by watching white actresses in movies. It’s in this state that he meets and marries Pauline. His father rejects him, and Cholly begins a descent into a world where only his desires and pleasures hold any interest for him. At age 14, he decides to search for his father. Instead of hating the men, Cholly directs his hatred toward women. His first sexual encounter becomes a terrifying experience because two white men discover what he and a girl are doing, and they force the two to continue the sexual act at gunpoint. Pecola’s mother, Pauline, and father, Cholly, are physically and verbally abusive to each other, Pecola and her older brother, Sammy.Ĭholly’s aunt raised him after his mother abandoned him. ![]() She is despised as ugly and wonders how she can find someone to love her. In 1941 in Lorain, Ohio, 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl, prays to have blue eyes so that she will be beautiful, similar to white children. ![]()
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