Question

What does Pecola desire most in the novel The Bluest Eyes?

• A. A new home
• B. Blue eyes
• C. Wealth
• D. Friends

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Blue eyes

Pecola Breedlove

• The protagonist of the novel, an eleven-year-old Black girl who believes that she is ugly and that having blue eyes would make her beautiful.

• Sensitive and delicate, she passively suffers the abuse of her mother, father, and classmates.

• She is lonely and imaginative.