Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.
Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.
Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away.