Pecola desperately yearns for blue eyes. Clearly, the Breedlove's are psychologically unstable and unhappy, and furthermore, they cannot conform to the happiness described in the primer because their family displays no qualities of unity and togetherness. The family name, "Breedlove," is ironic too because the "Breedlove's" do not "breed love." In fact, the "Breedlove's" breed hate-hate of blackness, and thus hatred of oneself. Interestingly enough, Pecola is the sole member of the Breedlove family who desperately yearns for the blissful life depicted in the "Dick and Jane" primer. Pecola realizes that the family in the primer is white and joined together by bonds of love, but more important, she also realizes that her family is neither white nor loving. Pecola begins to worship the life of "blue-eyed" Jane.
             Over the year in which this novel spans Pecola Breedlove is on a quest to discover her uniqueness. Pecola's individuality is her ugliness, more important though, Pecola believes the only way for her indivi
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