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That ties them to the prevailing norms of the black community.
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So, Pecola finds an ideal black community within that small apartment,
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but she is alienated from that positive black self-image that
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she sees in those women by her desire to identify
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with white beauty, to have blue eyes,
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and so that's how she would embody this.
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Frieda is also an example of this, Frieda and Claudia.
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So, actually, if we take the example of Claudia, Claudia wants to be like,
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remember the girl they called Meringue Pie, the light-skinned girl?
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She wants to be like her, but at the same time she recognizes
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a certain insipid quality to this girl.
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She doesn't have the kind of strength that Claudia and Frieda,