CR Post #3

The color blue appears in the book multiple times in many different ways. The color blue represents many different things to each person, but all of these representations symbolize an aspect if white people.

Pecola is obsessed with blue eyes and believes that they are a symbol of beauty and this concept is repeated many times. What she truly wants is to be accepted and loved like a white person.

The blue sky described by some of the characters represents a freedom that they long for that belongs to the whites and not the blacks.

There are the colored girls who wear “blue skirts almost purple from ironing,” who attempt to be like white people and differentiate themselves from blacks by calling themselves colored folks not niggers but can never truly be white.

Even when Pecola believes that she has obtained blue eyes, she wants the bluest eyes, because she has not truly obtained what she wants, which is to be loved and hence to be white.