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"Pecola has managed to write a new narrative about her life, an act that is sometimes healing for other characters in the novel, but this narrative reinforces her isolation from the world rather than reconnects her to it. Her new friendship is only imagined and does not protect her from old suffering or insecurity." -Spark Notes
— Jul 14, 2021 01:27PM
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"As is made abundantly clear when the imaginary friend brings up the painful subject of Cholly, Pecola has not escaped her demons. She has merely recast them in a new form." - Spark Notes
— Jul 14, 2021 01:28PM
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"along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind bound it and collected self-contempt by the heap. She forgot lust and simple caring for."
— Jul 14, 2021 10:31AM
