![]() ![]() The book was on my mind because I’d encountered what I felt were oblique references to it in two recent readings. I can’t say it was a completely new experience, and I have to admit, a lecture and an interview still came into play, but I’m glad to have finally had the experience. ![]() I have a history of reading about instead of reading, of studying instead of experiencing, and I’ve been trying to reverse that somewhat, so I chose to sit down and read the book I’ve been reading about for so long. But reading about a book is not the same as reading it. Over the past couple of decades, I’ve read so many analyses, adaptations, and references to this book, I felt as if I’d read it. We mustn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes.”Įach night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes… Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. ![]() Maybe they’d say, “Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. ![]() If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs. It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights-if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different…. ![]()
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