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Claudia, the main character, goes through struggles as kids at her school constantly call her ugly, making her believe that she is ugly. She begins to think that if she had blue eyes, all of her problems would go away as beauty to her is a way of escaping her problems in the outdoors and her household. Her blue eyes' desire can reveal her idea to possess whiteness as the white little girls in her school were not made fun of, while she was, which is not fair in her eyes. "Each night...she prayed for blue eyes" (Morrison 46).

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Pecola Breedlove attempts to get her mind off her family’s toxic environment and her own insecurities by buying herself treats from a local grocery store. When she goes to the counter, the owner, a white male, looks to Pecola as a worthless human as a result of the color of her skin, gender, and age. “The distaste must be...with distaste in white eyes.” (Morrison 49)

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When Claudia is sick and begins to doze off as her sister sings to her, her thoughts take over. "Love, thick and dark...everywhere in that house" (Morrison 12).

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Claudia talks about because she is a girl, people assume all she wants is a doll for Christmas. Although for a boy, people would assume they want other toys. "Adults, older girls, shops... 'worthy' you may have it" (Morrison 20-21).

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When Rosemary, the little girl next door, hollers to Mrs. MacTeer that her daughters are up to no good, Mrs. MacTeer beats Freida with a branch. "Mamma slammed the window shut...'Gonna be nasty, huh? Naw you ain't!'" (Morrison 30).

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Here we start to get a sense of the breedloves, their personality as a collective, and a small description of why they lived in a storefront we learn that "They live there because they were poor and black and they stayed there because they believe they were ugly"(Morrison 38)

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Claudia is talking about the house that she and her sister Freida live in. She then begins to explain the thing about adults and how  “Adults do not talk to us… We cannot answer them.” (Morrison 10)

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When Claudia's family takes in Pecola, she explains what it meant to be "outdoors". Claudia explains that it means to be homeless and on the street. There is a clear distinction of class, particularly relating to race, of those who have homes and those who rent homes, seen as an unstable form of living. "Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property... Propertied black people spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests." (Morrison 18)

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On a train of thought/conversation spawned by the Shirley Temple cup, Claudia talks about her hatred for the girl not because of her looks, but rather because of the injustice she feels when Bojangles dances with Shirley instead of her. "I couldn't join them... down under their heels," (Morrison 19)

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Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove had a very abusive relashionship, "No less did Cholly need her...He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires"(Morrison 43).

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Cholly Breedlove (when he was young) is caught "eliciting sexual pleasure from a little country girl" by two white men. They shine a light on them and say "Go on and finish. And, nigger make it good." (Morrison 42)

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When adults tell Claudia that she should get a doll, she asks herself why she even want one. She says, "I was bemused with the thing itself, and the way it looked. What was I supposed to do with it? Pretend I was its mother? I had no interest in babies or the concept of motherhood" (Morrison 20). Women are taught from such a young age that their only purpose in life is to raise a family, and you should get a doll to practice being a mother.

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When Claudia gets home from collecting coal, she lies down because she is sick. As she is lying down, she notes, "The metal in my black garters hurts my legs" (Morrison 10). This description provides insight into beauty standards at the time and how even young girls were forces to wear extravagant undergarments despite how uncomfortable they were.

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Claudia realizes the differences between the white baby dolls and the black baby dolls, and that even the white girls who seem perfect think they aren´t beautiful. ¨I destroyed white baby dolls...same impulses to little white girls¨ (Morrison 37).

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After Claudia receives a doll for Christmas, she is automatically repulsed by the idea of owning one. She says "I had only one desire; to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that escaped me, but apparently only me," (Morrison 20).

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Claudia describes the difference between being put "out" and being put "outdoors." She talks about her own family's experience and how they were poor. "Being a minority in both...major folds of the garment" (Morrison 17).

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Pecola Breedlove thinks that it is very unfair that she doesn't have blue eyes. She feels that her parents would stop fighting and people would stop calling her ugly.
"It had occurred to Pecola...'We musn't do bad things in front of those pretty eyes'" (Morrison 46).

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Claudia´s family assumes she wants a doll just because she is a girl. She didn't even like the doll. If she were a boy their gift wouldn't have been assumed.

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Pecola Breedlove longs to disappear but feels she must stay with her family because her looks make her one of them. She thinks, "As long as she looked the way she did, as long as she was ugly, she would have to stay with these people. Somehow she belonged to them" (Morrison 45).

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When Claudia begins to realize the difference between the baby dolls. and That the white girls that she thinks have everything still seem to look for more within themseveles.  ´ ¨I destroyed white baby dolls...same impulses to little white girls¨ (Morrison 37).

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Claudia talks about how dolls make her feel and how she doesn’t like them, but compared to cultural expectations of children then to now saying this would have been frowned upon: “ I had no interest in babies or the concept of motherhood”(Morrison 20).

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Talking about where the setting is
"Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober
eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel" (9).

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After Claudia and her sister were out for a long time getting coal scraps they eventually get home and Claudia is freezing. Her abusive mother, instead of caring for them in  tender way, mistreats them and verbally abuses Claudia. Claudia then vomits because of her mother's Vick's salve, which her Mother made her eat. After puking, her mother continues to verbally abuse her and this tears through Claudia's mentality which prompts her to think to herself, "My mothers anger humiliates me; ... is not angry at me, but at my sickness" (morrison, 11).

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While the adults are gossiping about people, the young girls might get a bad idea of what "love" is. They do not fully understand the adult conversation but they may pick up on small, negative details and hold it in their minds as "love"...
"'Well, that crazy ---- she married up with didn't help her head none."'(Morrison 13) The women are discussing marriages, yet just the messy, gossip-worthy ones. What affect might that have on the girls?

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When Claudia destroyed the doll to find its beauty she comments, "I destroyed white baby dolls. But the dismembering of dolls was not the true horror. The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls." (Morrison, 22)

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When Claudia is talking about how Pecola had to come stay with them, she says the following, "middle.
Mama had told us two days earlier that a “case” was coming—a girl who had no place to go. The county had placed her in our house for a few days until they could decide what to do, or, more precisely, until the family was reunited. We were to be nice to her and not fight. Mama didn’t know 'what got into people,' but that old Dog Breedlove had burned up his house, gone upside his wife’s head, and everybody, as a result, was outdoors" (Morrison 16-17). This part sets up both a look into the conflicts of Pecola's life, but the conflicts in her parents' lives as well. Both her mother and father were raising her in an unstable house. The mention of Mr. Breedlove being a "dog" and "go[ing] upside his wife's head" foreshadows later events to occur.