Pecola and Claudia are scared, but Frieda knows that Pecola is getting her first period. The blood begins to spill down Pecola's legs when she's outside with Claudia and Frieda, Claudia's older sister. First Period Panic: Pecola gets her first period and thinks something is wrong.While Claudia and Frieda are okay if despondent, Pecola suffers a nervous breakdown and loses her father's baby due to her mother beating her up, her brother runs away and Cholly dies, leaving her with Pauline and being expelled. Downer Ending: No one's fortunes improve by the end of the novel.This actually triggers her father into raping her. Character Tics: Pecola has a habit of scratching her calf with her toe, which she seemingly inherited from her mother.Butt-Monkey: If something humiliating and depressing can happen to Pecola, it will.But Not Too Black: Many of the characters subscribe to this, treating mixed-race people more humanely than "blacker" people.Bring My Brown Pants: As shown in a flashback, Cholly has this reaction when he meets his father for the first time and is none-to-kindly rebuked.
Blasphemous Boast: At the end of Soaphead Church's letter to God, he brags that he is superior because he can do the one thing that He can't: grant Pecola her blue eyes.Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Breedloves.Big Beautiful Woman: Miss Marie, aka the Maginot Line, is described as being huge, but she still receives plenty of clients as a prostitute-it's even implied she gets the most, as she's the de facto leader of the group.
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