The Bluest Eye

Chapter 6 & 7
By Sarah Agourame
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 Summary Quotes analysis 03

02 Discussion Exit ticket 04

questions
 Summary:
Chapter 6: Chapter 7:

- Frieda was sexually harassed by Describes pauline’s past to allow

Mr. Henry, which leads her to the reader understand how she
thinking that she is ruined. became the woman that she is.
- Frieda and Claudia thinks that
ruined means becoming fat and
ugly.
- Frieda and Claudia discover the
white neighbor for the first time
as they go looking for pecola to
give them whisky.
 What does spring symbolize in this
chapter?

Chapter 6
What do you know about Pauline?
How is she described?
 How does Pauline perceive herself? How does
she deal with her “ugliness”?
Quote 1:
Although she was the ninth of eleven children and lived
on a ridge of red Alabama clay seven miles from the
nearest road, the complete indifference with which a
rusty nail was met when it punched clear through her
foot during her second year of life saved Pauline
Williams from total anonymity. The wound left her with
a crooked, archless foot that flopped when she walked—
not a limp that would have eventually twisted her spine,
but a way of lifting the bad foot as though she were
extracting it from little whirlpools that threatened to pull
it under. Slight as it was, this deformity explained for her
many things that would have been otherwise
incomprehensible: why she alone of all the children had
no nickname….
Quote 2:
Her general feeling of separateness and
unworthiness she blamed on her foot.
Restricted, as a child, to this cocoon of her
family’s spinning, she cultivated quiet and
private pleasures. She liked, most of all, to
arrange things. To line things up in
rows—jars on shelves at canning, peach pits
on the step, sticks, stones, leaves—and the
members of her family let these
arrangements be.
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 Exit ticket:

How do you think Pauline’s “general feeling of separateness and

unworthiness” transfer to her daughter Pecola? And how will it affect
her?