"Dandelions. Why do people call them weeds? I think they're pretty. Nobody loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola, the main character from the novel The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, compares herself to the dandelions: ugly and unwanted. Pecola is raised with no sense of self-esteem or self-value. She is a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes. She yearns for blue eyes, the mark of beauty in the United States during the 1940s. She lives a life of tumult and ugliness. Pecola portrays happier versions of her life through the imaginary character, Jane. Pecola is a very static character who changes very little throughout the book.

"Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty" (Morrison 24). The Breedloves live in a shack, a shanty, "a box of peeling...