The Bluest Eye Women and Femininity Quotes Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #7 I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute! (2.4.35) |
Maureen insults Pecola, Frieda, and Claudia by using the same racially loaded language as the young boys.
| Quote #8 She, like a Victorian parody, learned from her husband all that was worth learning – to separate herself in body, mind, and spirit from all that suggested Africa. (3.9.7) |
Black women learn to dis-identify with blackness.
| Quote #9 Three women are leaning out of two windows. They see the long clean neck of a new young boy and call to him. He goes to where they are....They give him lemonade in a Mason jar. As he drinks, their eyes float up to him through the bottom of the jar....They give him back his manhood, which he takes aimlessly. (3.8.82) |
Cholly presumably encounters Miss Marie, Poland, and China here, but the text leaves this ambiguous. He has fun with them and rediscovers his masculinity.
