despite her earnest belief, change nothing if it did.
Morrison contrasts Pecola's homelife and blue-eye longings with those of the narrator, Claudia. Pecola's family is "crippled and crippling" (Morrison 210): her mother is cold and distant, her father is an alcoholic who rapes and impregnates her when she is barely twelve years old. Although Claudia's family is neither rich nor terribly close, her parents provide for and protect her and her elder sister Frieda. Claudia finds Pecola's obsession with Shirley Temple and blue eyes horrifying, and she herself loathes white girls violently: "The indifference with which I could have axed them was shaken only by my desire to do so" (Morrison 22). Claudia, like Morrison, struggles to figure out why white girls are favored over A
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