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* FashionDissonance: Or more accurately, beauty dissonance. Some of the reasons the Breedloves are considered ugly are their low hairlines and high cheekbones, traits that are now considered desirable.
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* FashionDissonance: Or more accurately, beauty dissonance. Some of the reasons the Breedloves are considered consider themselves ugly are their low hairlines and high cheekbones, traits that are now considered desirable.
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* Squick: You’ve got a strong stomach if you can get through the scene where Cholly rapes his pre-teen daughter.
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* Squick: {{Squick}}: You’ve got a strong stomach if you can get through the scene where Cholly rapes his pre-teen daughter.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Arguably the entire point of the book for most of the characters.
** Is Pecola’s character change at the end of the book in part of her simply being overzealous of her new gift, or is it just giving her a huge ego boost and making her a jackass? And while we’re at it, [[spoiler: did she really get blue eyes at the end of the book?]]
** Is Cholly an [[AbusiveParent irredeemable parental figure]], or a [[JerkassWoobie simply troubled by his past]]? In part with the second option, is the author trying to make the reader understand his plight, or is she trying to invoke the FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse trope?
** Is Pecola’s character change at the end of the book in part of her simply being overzealous of her new gift, or is it just giving her a huge ego boost and making her a jackass? And while we’re at it, [[spoiler: did she really get blue eyes at the end of the book?]]
** Is Cholly an [[AbusiveParent irredeemable parental figure]], or a [[JerkassWoobie simply troubled by his past]]? In part with the second option, is the author trying to make the reader understand his plight, or is she trying to invoke the FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse trope?
