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Cholly and a girl named Darlene are found in some bushes by two white men with guns. They say "Get on wid it... make it good" (Morrison 148).

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When Pauline gets a day job, she has to quit because Cholly came there one day drunk and her boss did not like that. Her boss said she could work there if she left Cholly. Pauline would go there to still try and get the money that her boss owed her. Her boss, who still wasn't giving Pauline her money, started to get tired of her and said that it was her husbands job to pay the bills. "That I should have... leave and get alimony" (Morrison 120).

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When Frieda and Claudia visited Pecola, they had a little incident with a berry clober and when Mrs. Breedlove saw the mess she beat Pecola. "Mrs. Breedlove yanked her...abused Pecola directly"(Morrison 109).

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In this chapter, we learn the story of Mrs. Breedlove, AKA Pauline. After Pauline and Cholly marry, she describes a major feeling of isolation and loneliness caused by her different class status from the other women. "Money became the focus of all their discussions... She wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way." (Morrison 118)

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When Cholly and Pauline got married, they loved each other. They still do love each other, but differently. They used to have sex as an "activity" but it was not the main outlet as it now is. They were more present in each others lives and had more excitement. Now they are distant and live the same days over and over again. Pauline thinks about how her and her husband are growing apart even in sex. "But it ain't like that anymore. Most times he's thrashing away inside me before I'm woke, and through when I am. The rest of the time I can't even be next to his stinking drunk self."(Morrison 131)
Her and her husband's fading connection is what is represented here. Earlier in the novel we learn that they really only have sex to show they love each other and this just shows that even sex for them isn't special anymore.

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When trying to find Pecola, Claudia ends up at Mrs., Breedloves workplace and sees a young white girl. She states "The familiar violence rose in me"(Morrison 108).We don't know exactly where this anger stems but we can infer that it has to do with , to some degree, her lack of everything this little girl has including wealth
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Pauline had just found out she was pregnant, and with this announcement came a change in Cholly's behavior. He came home more and stopped drinking as much. Their relationship was returning to how it was in the start, but as Pauline stayed home she still noticed the loneliness around her. "She forgot lust and...freedom in every way" (Morrison 122).

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"It may have been nervousness, awkwardness, but the pan tilted under Pecola’s fingers and fell to the floor, splattering blackish blueberries everywhere. Most of the juice splashed on Pecola’s legs, and the burn must have been painful, for she cried out and began hopping about just as Mrs. Breedlove entered with a tightly packed laundry bag." After Pecola spills on herself, instead of comforting her and caring for the burns she gets beaten.

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Claudia and Frieda are walking to Mrs. Breedlove’s work by the lake. While walking they notice the change in how houses looked. How before there were just grey houses and how the more they progressed the houses got lovelier. Finally they “reached Lake Shore Park...it filled our dreams.” (Morrison 105)

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Claudia and Frieda look for Pecola, but Pecola is not home, so they ask Miss Murray where she is, which she tells them Pecola is at Mrs. Breedlove's job. They find Pecola there, and Mrs. Breedlove invites them inside as she goes to finish the laundry. However, as they wait, a little white blonde girl comes in looking for Polly, but Pecola accidentally spills a berry cobbler her mother made onto herself and the white girl. Mrs. Breedlove soothes the little white girl that starts crying but smacks Pecola for accidentally spilling something. "Mrs. Breedlove hushing and soothing... the little pink-and-yellow girl" (Morrison 109).

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As Claudia and Frieda walk past town to ask Pecola for whisky, they pass by the Lake Shore Park(the Lake Shore area was mostly made up of higher class, white families). The park was so beautiful and the girls have always wanted to play in such a serene, pure environment. However, “Black people were not...it filled [Claudia and Frieda’s] dreams” (Morrison 105). No child should feel that they are unwelcome and unworthy of participating in anything because of race. This detail puts in perspective the discrimination and injustice that took place during this time period and is a good reminder of the hardships that the African American community dealt with and how we still need to strive for justice and the removal of all forms of racism and discrimination in society.

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When Cholly and a girl are found in the bushes by two white men, they are scared but the men say "Get on wid it... make it good" (Morrison 148).

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Pauline Breedlove finds all her self-fulfillment from working for the Fishers. She prides herself in doing good work for their family and gets a sense of power from it, but doesn't put the same effort into keeping up her own home and family because they will never get the same praise or respect. "The creditors and service people...All the meaningfulness of her life was in her work" (Morrison 128).

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The story of Mr and Mrs Breedlove and their fights embody the ¨traditional¨ gender roles. The ¨traditional¨ roles are unequal and the men should not be forced to earn money and women should not be forced to stay home.

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When Pecola, Claudia and Frieda are standing in the kitchen of Mrs. Breedlove's employer, a little blonde girl comes down the stairs and anxiously looks around for "Polly". Claudia, angry at the little girl, thinks that it is unfair that she can call Mrs. Breedlove "Polly" but her own daughter cannot. "'Where's Polly?' she asked...seemed enough reason to scratch her" (Morrison 108).

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Claudia was asking Freida of why she was crying and she told her because their dad beat up Mr. Henry, Claudia asked why and Frieda explained how he had harassed her, Claudia then asked, "How did it feel..." (Morrison, 99)

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Cholly experiences great injustice when he feels he can't even begin to direct his hatred toward the hunters because of the color of their skin. "Never did he once consider... question mark of smoke" (Morrison, 150)

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Polly gets a job taking care of the Fishers so that she can earn her own money. Her own family's conditions in regards to wealth/poverty are contrasted to the Fishers', showing that the Fishers are a wealthy family with nicer possessions than Polly. "When she bathed the little Fisher girl...no tangled black puffs of rough wool to comb" (Morrison 127).

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She values her own beauty and instead of being ashamed of the way she looks she chooses to embrace her flaws. “The Maginot Line put a fat hand on one of the folds of her stomach and laughed at first just a deep humming with her mouth closed, then a larger, warmer sound laughter at once beautiful and frightening” (Morrison 104).

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Though it's not exactly evident, when Pecola, Frieda, and Claudia walk into the house where Mrs. Breedlove was, Claudia states that, "another door opened, and in walked a little girl, smaller and younger than all of us. She wore a pink sunback dress and pink fluffy bedroom slippers with two
bunny ears pointed up from the tips. Her hair was corn yellow and bound in a thick ribbon. When she saw us, fear danced across her face for a second. She looked
anxiously around the kitchen" (Morrison 108). The fear "danc[ing]" across her face most likely wasn't due to the fact that Mrs. Breedlove was nowhere to be found, but that she was white and there where three black girls in the kitchen that she had never seen before. The undertone of racism here is that the little girl's fear was due to their skin color, not that they were strangers.

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Pauline began looking for thing to do after being constantly bored at home and found herself enjoying her trips to the movie theater. While at the movie theater one time, she " got up to get (her) some candy. (She) was sitting back in (her) seat, and (she) taken out a big bite of candy, and it pulled a teeth"

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After Pauline moves to Ohio, she realizes new and harsh beauty standards she is held to. Women in Ohio, "Were amused by [Pauline] because she did not straighten her hair. When she tried to make up her face as they did, it came off rather badly. Their goading glances and private snickers at her way of... and dressing developed in her a desire for new clothes" (Morrison 118).

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Rape is an epidemic, most commonly against women. This is reflected in TBE, and how most offenses are by people close to the visctim. "Following the disintegration—the falling away—of sexual desire, he was conscious of her wet, soapy hands on his wrists, the fingers clenching, but whether her grip was from a hopeless but stubborn struggle to be free, or from some other emotion, he could not tell" (Morrison, page 163).