Jealousy In The Bluest Eye

Because of this, the reader can infer that the abuse led to low self esteem and feeling jealousy of “perfect” little girls. Like Pecola, Claudia shows several signs of envy towards white girls.

Although Claudia was filled with jealousy and lived in an abusive community, she had a loving family which helped her to hold on to some of her innocence and not end up like Pecola.

The abuse displayed in The Bluest Eye may have set the strongest tone for the entire story due to the fact that everybody was affected by it in a negative way, and yet nobody knew what to do to make it go away. The character who was put through the most abuse of each type Pecola, because not only was she sexually abused, but also mentally and emotionally. For Pecola’s

It was not easy for her to find a way to leave her husband, so she continued to be with him regardless of the way he treated her and her family.

Because it was so hard for her to leave him, Pauline changed herself and began to be filled with more hate than love, and instead of feeling like her life had purpose, she just lived to hate Cholly.

In order to make the abuse feel like it was not there, she hid it from the public and almost pretended like it was not real, which in the end only made things worse for her daughter and herself.

While the Breedlove family was full of abuse and sadness, Freida was also a victim of sexual abuse, but it did have a different affect on her. Frieda and Claudia were both exposed to the sexual abuse in their community their entire lives, especially when they were too young to even understand what they were witnessing. For instance, Frieda was a victim of sexual abuse when she was “picked at” by Mr. Henry one day, and she cried because she did not want to be ruined like the Maginot Line. For this reason, Frieda was lucky because she was abused and may have continued to be abused if it was not for the help she received from her family and also her