black-eyed peas and orange pop. Like flies they hovered; like flies they settled. And this one had settled in her house.(p.92) She speaks to the child, Get out, she said, her voice quiet. You nasty little black bitch. Get out of my house.(p.92) Covertly, words like these only reinforces the self-hatred Pecola already feels. Pecola equates what little love for herself with snowflakes falling and dying on the pavement. (p.93) The way people go about gaining knowledge and drawing conclusions about the world and ourselves; comes from our families; First, from our communities; second, and third, from our peers. These are the educators from which Pecola Breedlove and her family has manufactured their concepts of a non-beautiful self. Throughout the novel, are allusions to manyunprettisms. Another quote from novel states, Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique. But their ugliness was unique. No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly.(p.38) Here, social construction has branded this family as ugly. A people acknowledged only by their ugliness and usefulness. Castoffs--to merely be tolerated and manipulated. Homeless folk. These feelings are validated by the voluntary and involuntary choices presented to and accepted by the Breedloves in life. It seems that society blames and faults the Breedloves for their experiences of anguish and abuse by others and themselves, regardless of situation or circumstance.As with all human beings, the likelihood that just one thing or just one someone would disagree with these labels of ugliness, is not too much to think likely. This quote, lay bare how easily they have been trained to give up on hope, They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance.(p.39) For every impoverished person, ...
