This image here connects to a lot of information and content in the bluest eye. One of the main characters, Pecola, believes that having blue eyes is the key to being beautiful and finding an acceptance through society. Pecola wishes and prays she has blue eyes so she could seem more beautiful. Throughout the narrative, she goes through social rejection. By seeing the blue eyed dolls she would receive as gifts, she wishes she can be like them so no one can talk bad about her. Pecola develops an unhealthy self-image because she isn’t white and doesn’t have what are considered “traditionally beautiful” characteristics, such as blue eyes or blonde hair, which have been reinforced as desirable attributes throughout her life.
