Pecola Breedlove
The eleven-year-old girl whose wish for blue eyes gives the novel its title.
She wants blue eyes because she believes they would make her beautiful and change how others treat her.
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Spoiler-freePecola associates blue eyes with beauty, attention, and a different life. Morrison's foreword describes a child whose sense of worth is damaged by the judgments around her.
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