Or, is it that she continues to drink the white goodness in hopes of changing her chocolate skin into the beautiful fair complexion of the young child star featured on the cup? Claudia reveals her resentment toward little Temple when she sneeringly drifts into jealous thoughts about the golden-locked girl dancing with her dearest Bojangles.
Drinking all three quarts of the family’s supply of milk, Pecola cannot seem to get enough of to drink. It first made apparent to the reader when Pecola arrives to the McTeer home and drinks milk from the Shirley Temple cup. It is a mood most powerfully conveyed through Pecola’s utter contempt toward the white race.
In addition to the severe descriptions of her novel’s setting, Morrison reveals the character’s innermost beings with an evident mood of embitterment within the first portion of, The Bluest Eye. The settings of the characters as described in the beginning of Morrison’s novel are essential to understanding their fundamental nature as human beings. This location was Pecola’s escape, the one place she could forget her life in the apartment and enjoy the companionship of people who cared about her. Seemingly out of place, directly above the Breedlove apartment lies the livelier home of the neighborhood whores, China, Poland, and Mrs.
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