Pecola Breedlove's mind is preoccupied by the idea of whiteness. This idea was originally gained from her mother, Pauline, who envisions everything good in the world to have blonde hair and blue eyes, therefore setting a white scenario in her home. It is here in the "white" home, that Pauline takes the new identity, Polly. She separates from her self, physically, and enters into a world of the white person, where she forgets her family, characterized by disorder, and blackness (ugliness). She sees the "white" world with vivid colors, while she sees the "black" world, where she comes from, in plain ugly black and white. In her "black" wor
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