ed by an aunt, who dies when he is just 14. “Abandoned in a junk heap by his mother, rejected for a crap game by his father, there was nothing more to lose” (Morrison 160). Before he leaves to go find his Dad however, Cholly has an incident happen to him that will affect him for the rest of his life. He is surprised in the woods by two white hunters while he’s having his first sexual experience. This coupled with his aunt’s death drive him to go find his father, because he figured he had nothing left to do. When he is rejected by his father, it plunges him into a deep depression that seemingly, he never recovers from. He falls into a life of crime and drifting, “He could go to jail and not feel imprisoned, for he had already seen the furtiveness in the eyes of his jailer, free to say, “No suh,” and smile, for he had already killed three white men” (Morrison 159). Then one day by chance, he meets and seduces his future wife on some farm in Kentucky. They end up with two kids, and the rest is history. The book says Cholly ends up treating his family so bad because he wasn’t raised properly, and because he didn’t have a real family to grow up in, and that only in the bottle did he find enough comfort to ease the pain of his very existence. Right after the book states that, it goes into lurid detail of Cholly raping his eleven year old daughter, Pecola. Then it shifts view point and tells the fate of Cholly, who takes off and eventually dies in a workhouse. What a character Cholly Breedlove was. He did absolutely almost nothing good or right, yet he had such a profound impact on a lot of characters in this story. “The tiny, undistinguished days that Mrs. Breedlove lived were identified, grouped, and classed by these quarrels. They gave substance to the minutes and hours otherwise dim and unrecalled.” (Morrison 41) “To deprive her of these fights was to deprive her...
