heir standards of beauty onto the world, and because of this, many people began to realize how far away they were from these American standards of beauty. Pecola goes to visit Soaphead Church with the hope that he will be able to fulfill her wish to have blue eyes. She thinks that with blue eyes, all of her problems will disappear and the world will love her because she will be beautiful. The world, seen through blue eyes, will also appear beautiful to Pecola. "Soaphead thought it was at once the fantastic and most logical petition he had ever received. Here was an ugly girl asking for beauty. A surge of love and understanding swept through him, but was quickly replaced with anger"(174). At the end of Morrison's novel, Claudia prays that Pecola's baby will survive. She needs the baby to live to counteract society's standards set on beauty, which say that blonde-haired, blue-eyed little girls are all that is pretty. Claudia hopes that with this new black baby people will change and see blackness as something that can be admired and something that is beautiful....
