es that this change was "an adjustment withoutimprovement"(23), and that making herself love them only fooled herself andhelped her cope. Soaphead Church wrongly places his anger on God andblamed him for "screwing-up" human nature. He asked God to explain how hecould let Pecola's wish for blue eyes go so long without being answered andscorned God for not loving Pecola. Despite his own sins, Soaphead feels thathe had a right to blame God and ot assume his role in granting Pecola blueeyes, although her knew that beauty was not necessarily a physical thing but astate of mind and being: "No one else will see her blue eyes. But shewill"(182). The Mobile girls wrongly placed their anger in their own race, andthey do not give of themselves fully(even to their family). These girls hateniggers because according to them, "colored people were neat and quiet;niggers were dirty and loud"(87). Black children, or they as Geraldine calledthem, were like flies: "They slept six to a bed, all their pee mixing together inthe night as they wt their beds. . . they clowned on the playgrounds, brokethings in dime stores, ran in front of you on the street. . . grass wouldn't growwhere they lived. Flowers died. Like flies they hovered; like flies theysettled"(92). Although the Mobile girls are black themselves, they ". . .got ridof the funkiness. the dreadful funkiness of passion, the funkiness of nature, thefunkiness of the wide range of human emotions,"(83) and most of all they triedto rid themselves of the funkiness of being black. They were shut off by thewhites because they did not belong, but shut themselves off from their ownblack race. To the blacks in The Bluest Eye, "Anger is better(than shame).There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness ofworth"(50). the blacks are not strong, only aggressive; they are notcompassionate, only polite; they were not good, but well behave; theysubstituted good grammar for intellect, and rearran...
