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in this background which her father only knows that alcoholism, the mother only knows that serve for white families. With the dark-skinned, brown hair she lives in white aesthetic value system, of course, she has no place. From self-hatred to self-denial, she eventually became a victim of the white aesthetic standard.
 In fact, readers still don’t know that what Pecola looks like after reading the novel, they are not clear. There is no specific concept, the most prominent impression that she has black skin. Because of the black skin, she never dares to speak loudly; because of the black skin, when she was bullied by others in her school, she just cries and covers her eyes with her hands.
Her self-hatred psychology by her normal operations exposed completely. Long hours she sits looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that makes her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike. It has occurred to Pecola that “if she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs. Breedlove too. Maybe they’d say, ‘Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We mustn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes’”.（Morrison, 2000: 40）She believes that blue eyes are a panacea: they will give her the love and security that are desperately missing from her life. So each night, without fail, she prays for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she has prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she is not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that happen would take a long, long time. Later, Morrison began to focus on yearning for blue eyes of Pecola and her reaction to the gazes of others.
“Blue eye” associated with her all along. Pecola is the ultimate victim among those striving for white beauty. As a poor black girl, Pecola in enviably suffers contempt when measured by this standard. Through an examination of Pecola’s painful experiences Morrison exposes and indicts those who pursue white standard of beauty and devalue Pecola’s identity and ignore her marginalized existence. The white storekeeper Yacobowski who sells Mary Jane candies to Pecola avoids touching her hand when she pays and barely disguises his contempt for her:
 
 The gray head of Mr. Yacobowski looms up over the counter. She urges his eyes out of his thoughts to encounter her. Blue eyes. Blear-dropped. Slowly, like Indian summer moving imperceptibly toward fall, he looks toward her. Somewhere between retina and object, between vision and view, his eyes draw back, hesitate, and hover. At some fixed point in time and space he senses that he need not waste the effort of a glance. (Morrison, 2000: 41-42)
 
     He does not see her, because for him there is nothing to see. How can a fifty-two-year-old white immigrant storekeeper with the taste of potatoes and beer in his mouth, see a little black girl? “Nothing in his life even suggested that the feat was possible, not to say desirable or necessary”. (Morrison, 2000: 42) She looks up at him and “see the vacuum where curiosity ought to lodge. And something more. The total absence of human recognition—the glazed separateness”. (Morrison, 2000: 43) She does not know what keeps his glance suspended. “Yet this vacuum is not new to her. It has an edge; somewhere in the bottom lid is the distance”. She has seen it lurking in the eyes of all white people. So she decides “the distaste must be 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。