Eventually she succeeds in buying three Mary Janes. She points at some Mary Janes but has difficulty in communicating to Mr. As with all white people, in Pecola's experience, there is "a vacuum edged with distaste" in his eyes when he looks in her direction. Yacobowski, the store owner, seems barely to see her. She walks down to a grocery store to buy some candy. She has come to believe that if her eyes were different she would be different and would not have to endure being ugly. Pecola feels nauseous and begs God to allow her to disappear. Breedlove then hits her husband with a stove lid, knocking him out. Sammy joins in and beats his father about the head with his fists. She hits him with the pan and he strikes her in the face. Breedlove throws a dishpan of cold water over Cholly. Every time it happens she wishes she could die. This is a frequent occurrence in their house, and is of course deeply painful to Pecola. It is clear that a physical fight between them is brewing. Breedlove gets up in the morning, she is angry with him and demands that he go outside and get some coal. Cholly has come home drunk the previous evening. The incident the narrator now relates took place on a Saturday morning in October. Their ugliness comes not so much from their actual physical appearance as from their belief that they are ugly. The Breedloves live in the storefront because, as the narrator puts it, they are poor and black, and also because� they believe they are ugly. There are three beds, one for Pecola, another for Sammy, her older brother, and a double bed for Cholly and Mrs. There are two sofas, a piano, and an artificial Christmas tree that has been there for two years. There is nothing remarkable about the furnishings, which are all old. In the next short section, the second narrator describes in detail the apartment that the Breedloves move into when Cholly is released from jail. MacTeer comes out the back door and whips Claudia with a switch across her legs, but when the girls explain what� is happening to Pecola, she softens and helps to clean Pecola up. Claudia scratches Rosemary's nose, and Rosemary calls for the girls' mother and complains that the girls are playing "nasty." Mrs. Frieda attaches a cotton pad to Pecola's dress. Claudia gets some water to wash the steps, while Frieda takes� Pecola to the side of the house where the bushes are thick. Pecola is menstruating for the first time. Pecola asks whether he is going to die, and Frieda tells her that all the blood means is that now she is able to have a baby. They look at her and see she is bleeding between her legs. Before they can decide anything, Pecola interrupts them with a little scream. One Saturday afternoon, Claudia and Frieda are bored and try to think up something interesting to do.
She starts to hate little white girls, too. She also recalls how she hated the big, blue-eyed baby doll she was given for Christmas. When Pecola arrives, Claudia and Frieda stop fighting each other and try to make Pecola feel at home.� Pecola loves drinking milk out of the blue and white Shirley Temple cup the girls bring her, but Claudia hates Shirley Temple. Soon after, a girl named Pecola Breedlove is placed in the MacTeer home by social services because Mr. It is said that he is a steady, quiet worker, and when he arrives Claudia and Frieda think he is wonderful because he talks to them in a friendly way and plays with them. The girls overhear some of the talk about him before he arrives. Henry, who has been living with� an old woman who is no longer competent to take care of him. That fall, the MacTeers accept a boarder, a single man named Mr. Frieda and Claudia do not know why Rosemary says this, but they say no. They know, since they have obviously done this before, she will cry and ask if they want her to pull her pants down. Claudia reacts angrily because she and her sister, Frieda, want the good food that Rosemary can afford to eat but more than that, Claudia is angry because of Rosemary's superior attitude. She is sitting in her car eating bread and butter, and rolls the window down just to let the other girls know they cannot come in her car. She begins with an incident involving the girls' neighbor, Rosemary, who is white. This is the first of the four main sections of the novel, and is set in the Autumn of 1940.
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