Beginning of the book it’s explaining how Pecola was in love with one person but she has no memory of him ever being bad and doesn’t know the reason that she doesn’t love him.

This quote can be related to the theme “race vs. beauty” in the book The Bluest Eye. This quote explained Pecola’s desire of having a pair of blue eyes. It is important to know that the reason she wanted those eyes is not simply because she want to accommodate to the white standard of beauty, “blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned” female(Morrison 21),  but to “[hold] the pictures, and knew the sights,” so that she could see difference, so that the reality could be changed and everything would be beautiful, and she would no longer need to suffer. This quote also reflects the conflict that the black people conformed the white standard of beauty even though those “beautiful” people had done the greatest harm on them.

This quote reflects the theme “conformity is prevalent in society”. Earlier in the book, as Pecola walking to the store and observing the dandelions in her surrounding, “She thought they are pretty,” but she couldn’t understand “why… do people call them weed” (Morrison 47). This quote shows her innocence and differentiates her form others in the society in that she has an independent view on beauty. This quote, however, reveals the change in Pecola after she had been humiliated by the storekeeper. It is a inner conflict Pecola had because now she think herself as ugly as the dandelion, and this change in her view about herself is imposed onto her by not only the racist, but also the sense of conformity in her society.

This quote can be related to the theme “beauty vs. ugliness” and “conformity.” Although slavery has ended for decades, the demonization of black people still existed in the society. The oppression the black people experienced throughout their lives gradually made themselves believe that they are ugly and didn’t deserve to be treated as human. It was a self dehumanization that every black people was going through. Their perspectives were distorted, and this led to hatred and envy among themselves. These phenomena were seen through Pecola’s desire to have blue eyes, which was in conformity with the societal standard of beauty, that is, she blamed her suffering on herself for not being a white, pretty girl, but not to her surrounding, to the recist society, and to her counterparts who had gone mad as well as herself.