(Morrison 161)” Since he had never had love or affection from his parents he had failed to show any to Pecola. His first reaction to her is ‘revulsion’ which is ‘a reaction to her young, helpless, hopeless presence’. “Moments before he rapes his daughter, he has returned home drunk and sees her washing dishes. He was never taught how to have a good parent child relationship therefore he wouldn’t have been able to have one with his own children. His first encounters with parenting caused him to understand at a young age “that a parent/child relationship is not necessarily one that is filled with love.” (Andrews) Usually kids look forward to sleeping with their mothers but not him he saw it in a bad way. ” (132) If he looked at her as an actual parent he wouldn’t have thought about it like that but instead he would have thought about it in a good way. “…When she made him sleep with her for warmth in the winter and he could see her old wrinkled breasts in her nightgown- then he wondered whether it would have been just as well to have died.

He was left to grow up with his Aunt Jimmy who he had a tough time viewing as a real parent. Before he was even born his dad had abandoned his mother when she found out she was pregnant and nine days after he was born his mom leaves him in a trash pile. This article shows how Andrews believes “… that Cholly is giving his daughter the only form of love he knows how to express…” In order for the us to understand the rape scene they would have to understand his past. In the article Taking Refuge in “How:” Dissecting the Motives Behind Cholly’s Rape in The Bluest Eye by Rebecca Andrews, Andrews talks about the motives behind Cholly raping Pecola.

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