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Autumn
The novel opens by introducing the Breedlove family and the MacTeer household where Claudia and Frieda live. Pecola Breedlove, whose parents have been declared unfit, comes to sta…
Winter
Winter brings new characters and new humiliations for Pecola. Maureen Peal, a light-skinned Black girl, arrives at school and is immediately treated as superior by teachers and st…
Spring
Spring is the darkest section of the novel. Cholly Breedlove, drunk and emotionally broken, rapes his daughter Pecola.
Summer
Summer closes the novel with Pecola's complete psychological collapse. She is now pregnant and has invented an imaginary friend who tells her she has the bluest eyes in the world.
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