20. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 3: Spring

This section contains pages 97 to 183.

The section opens with the scene which Mr.Henry touches Frieda's breasts.(the actual word for that scene is "picking at" ). Frieda2s dad beats up Mr.Henry and this is the actual event that we see her dad's existence.

After this "picking at" they decided not to become ruined like the Miss Marie. So they go to talk to Pecola to convince her to steal some whiskey from her dad. At this point of the novel Morrison tries to show us the inequalities between the whites and the blacks. There is a long descriptive paragraph that describes the differences such as houses, pathways etc., but the one about the sky "The orange-patched Sky of the steel-mill section never reached this part of town."

There are some major ironies in this section such as;

• When Pecola pour the pot of blueberries Pauline(Polly) slaps her although her own daughter got burnt from the pot and instead she takes care of the little girl of the Fisher's.
• The white child is being raised by a black woman which was common at those times.
• Pauline takes care of that house more than she does for her own.

Later we see how Pauline and Cholly love each other and how their relation ship grow. There is a sexual part where the writer uses the inconvenient phrase "he puts his thing inside me" to explain how Pauline considers sex which is the sex is the only time where and when they share "something" together with fake orgasms and fears of children might hear them with of course, feeling the burden of "he must have come first".

Pauline has a limped foot and her 2 teeth has fell so these physical features of her make her feel insecure of herself and lonely.



Then the author decides to talk about Cholly and his childhood.When her mother decides to throw him, his Aunt Jimmy take care of him and raised him. After his aunt's death he falls into a deep hole and don't know where to go & what to do. So he decides to find his father. In the mean time, we see 2 white men with a "flashlight" telling him to continue to have sex with Darleen with high laughter and -this is the part where i find most bizarre- he obeys them but hates Darleen but not them.
I think this event affects him bad sexually and we can understand it by the quote; "In a dream his penis changed into a long hickory stick, and the hands caressing it were the hands of M'Dear." (p. 139)