As White as a Rose's Pedal

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While reading the second chapter, as a reader, we finally catch a glimpse of how this family’s life is full of abuse, discrimination and misery. Morrison demonstrated Claudia’s escape from her reality through a blue-eyed doll. But wait. You might think like the rest of the adults, and believe she wants to play house while feeding the precious doll and nurturing it as her mother. You’re wrong. How can Claudia be given such a false representation of beauty, and not be expected to yearn every aspect of it?

Her desire is so powerful that she feels that having it to play with is not enough. So what does she do? Simple, she dismembers it “to see of what it is made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped…”(20).

Your reaction: “You-don’t-know-how-to-take-care-of-nothing. Now-you-got-one-a-beautiful-one-and-you-tear-it-up-whats-the-matter-with-you?”

Oh stop it you sound just like her mother!

Morrison creates a character that does not have anything materialistic in her life, and yet she does not want to possess any object. She would rather feel. She would rather be the very thing she holds on to everyday because she believes her race is guilty for everything that happens in her life.