Bully In Toni Morrison's Pecla

At the end of part 2, Pecola is tricked by a neighborhood boy named Louis Junior when he invites her back to his house and gets his cat to attack her. After unintentionally killing his own cat, Junior's mother returns home and treats Pecola with extreme disgust and hatred, immediately blaming her for the death of his cat. Despite being a woman, and black herself, Junior's mother refers to Pecola as a "nasty little black bitch" (Morrison 92).The factors that lead Junior's mother Geraldine to hate her own race much in the same way that Pecola envy's the white race are their environment and the society. In their environment and the society, the people call the Blacks “niggers”(Morrison 87), ugly, and dirty. They also know that the Whites are more superior so they favored the Whites

Pecola envies the white race because they are treated well while she is treated badly. For example, she gets bully by a group of boys and calls her “Black e mo”(Morrison 65)She gets bully just because the other people thinks that the Blacks are inferior and can be bullied. In reality, she gets bully just because no one stands up for her. Most importantly, her teachers don't stand for her because she is black and her family is torn so no one can care for her. The idea of double-consciousness that W.E.B. Dubois introduced in "The Souls of Black Folk" and that is continued in the writings of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates is the feeling that it’s difficult or impossible to have one unified identity when you have more than one identity. For example, Junior’s mother Geraldine is born Black but acts like she belongs to the White race. She is having two identities, but she can only have one identity. Therefore, she chooses to belong to the Whites and hates her own race. She decides to act and think like the Whites but in reality, she’s Black and she can’t get rid of that identity. She will never belong to the White