This section contains pages 61-93.We meet some new characters and one of them is Maureen Peal.
Maureen Peal: " A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into 2 lynch ropes that hung down her back.She was rich, at least by our standards... The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me."
By this quote we can have a general idea bout her. She has green eyes and she is light-black skin(she is hybrid). Everyone thinks that she is cute. Claudia and Frieda hate her - they call them Meringue Pie- but eventually they and she save Pecola from bullying.After that Maureen call them nigger and that is on page 73 which is a symbol of degree of blackness and racist self-hatred.
Another important quote is on page 74. "Dolls we could destroy, but we could not destroy the honey voices of parents and aunts ... the Maureen Peals of the world."
By this quote we can easily see that Claudia don't agree with the world that beauty comes with the word "white" and she denies that white dolls are beautiful and her hatred against Maureen is because of her white features.
On page 77, we can see the sexual awakening of Claudia by " A cold wind blew somewhere in me, lifting leaves of terror and obscure longing." she thinks that when she sees Mr.Henry licking Miss Marie's fingers.
The word FUNK means -according to the text- the black features.
Geraldine: she migrates from south to north to find jobs. she has a son Louis Junior and a cat. she loves her cat more than her son. she does not enjoys having sex with her husband and acts like she is having orgasm.
We can see the "winter"ness of this section by the last sentence of the section; "But she could not hold it low enough to avoid seeing the snowflakes falling and dying on the pavement."
I see two posts, not three :))
ReplyDeleteIt's good to summarise what we discussed here - and I really liked your interpretation of the "winter"ness - that's a really beautiful line.