In Toni Morrison's story and in real life, beauty is described by people as having blond hair, blue eyes , perfect figure, etc. It's been said that if you have good looks, you can make it in

Pauline strived for beauty because she wanted to attention and wanted to be beautiful. Pauline seemed to have just worse case of bad luck, when she was a child she stepped on a nail and she was left with a limp forever. "The wound left her with a crooked, archless foot that flopped when she walked..." (110). She tried to put that behind her but she lost three middle teeth, not all the same time but slowly. It wasn't because her teeth were rotten the tooth just fell out. "I was sitting back in my seat, and I taken a big bite of that candy, and it pulled a tooth right out of my mouth. I could of cried. I had good teeth, not a rotten one in my head. I don't believe I ever did get over that" (123). After trying so hard to become beautiful and things going bad the harder she tried, she just gave up.

life with just looks alone. People only strive for becomi

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