Pecola, the protagonist of The Bluest Eye, despite this dominant role is submissive and remains mysterious. Pecola is a fragile and delicate child at the beginning of the novel, and by the end of the novel, she has been almost completely ruined by violence. At the beginning of the novel, two desires form the basis of his sensitive life: he wants to learn how to make people love him; when she is forced to witness her parents' brutal arguments, she simply wants to vanish. Neither wish is granted, and Pecola is forced further and further into her fantasy world, which is her only defense against the pain of her reality. She believes that being granted the blue eyes she desires would change both how others see her and what she is forced to see. At the end of the novel, he believes his wish has been granted, but only at the cost of his stability. Pecola's fate is worse than death because she is afforded no relief from her world: she simply moves "to the edge of town, where you can see her even now" (205). When we first meet young Pecola, she has been moved out of state after her father, Cholly, burns down their family's house and the family is out in the cold; “that old dog Breedlove had burned down his house, had gone to his wife's head, and consequently everyone was out in the open” (16-17). Pecola adores Shirley Temple, loves playing with dolls and desperately wants to have blue eyes so she won't be "ugly". While these desires illustrate that Pecola remains mentally and emotionally a child, her menstruation, in the first chapter of the book, shows that she is experiencing a period of physical maturation. Yet Pecola doesn't understand what's happening and eventually becomes concerned with the all-too-real adult horror of "getting someone to love you" and...... middle of paper ......there, a mother who he loves his white employers more than his own family and a brother who constantly runs away. All three of which reinforce the idea of ​​Pecola's ugliness. At the end of this novel, after not just one but two instances of being raped by her father, she became pregnant and then lost a baby whose father was also Pecola's, and was made to believe that she had finally been granted his blue eyes. Pecola's state of mind, it is safe to say, has completely worsened. In the novel it is stated that “a little black girl longs for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her desire is surpassed only by the wicked realization” (204). Regardless of the disappointments, the forces of evil or the mental breakdown of young Pecola. It is clear at the end of the novel that her state of mind is gone and the entire community seems to have put her out of their minds.