She now thinks they are ugly, and she is angered. Yacobowski, and Pecola starts to walk home, her feelings towards the same dandelions change. However, after her ugliness repulses the storeowner, Mr. She thinks they are pretty, and wonders why everyone else sees them as merely weeds. Self-Hatred 4: When Pecola is walking down the street, she notices the dandelions.

She would see herself as beautiful, instead of the ugly little girl she is disgusted with when she looks into the mirror. People would see her differently, including her classmates and teachers, and she would even see herself differently. She secretly thinks that maybe if she were prettier, if she had blue eyes for example, then things would be different. He runs away sometimes, and Pecola often wonders why he never takes her with him. Self-Hatred 3: Pecola is just as upset by her parents' fighting as is her brother, Sammy. The doll, so revered for its white established ideals of what beautiful was, made Claudia hate herself for being the complete opposite of those ideals. She knew that to destroy the doll was wrong, but she could not help it. She hated the doll's blue eyes and blonde hair staring back at her, reminding her of how different she looked from the doll. Instead of adoring and cradling the new gift, as most other children would have done, Claudia, in a fit of rage, dismembered and destroyed the doll. Self-Hatred 2: Claudia receives a white baby doll for Christmas one year. This forces a feeling of self-hatred for being black upon the girls. Claudia and Frieda hate Rosemary because she stands for all of the things that Claudia and Frieda will never have nor be, specifically white. Rosemary has what Claudia and Frieda want, things that white people have, such as bread and butter and a nice Buick car. Self-Hatred 1: Claudia and Frieda stare at Rosemary Villanucci. The Bluest Eye Topic Tracking: Self-Hatred

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