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The Bluest Eye : Who’s Who. Mother/Father/Dick/Jane/cat/dog--from primer Breedloves (ironically named) Pecola --our heroine Mrs. Pauline Breedlove aka Polly--Pecola’s mom Cholly Breedlove --Pecola’s dad Sammy--Pecola’s older brother, often runs away MacTeers
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The Bluest Eye: Who’s Who • Mother/Father/Dick/Jane/cat/dog--from primer • Breedloves (ironically named) • Pecola--our heroine • Mrs. Pauline Breedlove aka Polly--Pecola’s mom • Cholly Breedlove--Pecola’s dad • Sammy--Pecola’s older brother, often runs away • MacTeers • Claudia--our most frequent narrator • Frieda--her slightly older sister • their mom and dad
Henry Washington--boarder at the MacTeers • Big Mama & Big Papa--Claudia’s grandparents • Rosemary Villanucci--white girl who lives next door to the MacTeers. • Maureen Peal--high yellow girl with sloe green eyes, her family is very well off. • Soaphead Church aka Elihue Micah Whitcomb --gives “psychic” advice • Velma--woman who left Soaphead • Geraldine and Louis--genteel black couple • Louis Junior--tortures Pecola and his mom’s cat
Prostitutes who live above the Breedloves • China • Poland • Miss Marie aka the Maginot line • the Fishers for whom Pauline Breedlove works and their blonde, blue-eyed daughter • Samson Fuller--Cholly Breedlove’s father • Great Aunt Jimmy--who raises Cholly after she discovers his mom putting him on a trash heap. • Blue Jack--old man befriending young Cholly • Darlene--girl Cholly having sex with when caught and humiliated by white hunters