Analysis+of+At+Least+Three+Major+Characters

**Claudia** : Claudia is the narrator, who is generally pretty happy. She minds her manners most of the time. She and Freida are excellent friends to Pecola. Getting her out of a bad enrvironment and trying to save her baby from dying like all the adults say it will. Claudia trys her best to stay out of trouble.

**Pecola** : Pecola is an overall happy young lady who has amazing friends that helped her through hard times.With her parents making her work at the railroad collecting coal. Pecolas father raped her causing her to get pregnant. This makes her a very strong young individual. Pecolas self-esteem is very low, she thinks she is ugly and wishes she had blue eyes. Pecola winds up having her baby prematurely and it dies.

**Cholly :** Cholly rapes his daughter Pecola. Hes a very harsh companion. Cholly is always coming home drunk at about 4am every morning then gets to play victim to Mrs. Breedloves wrath. Mrs. Breedlove would think up tasks for him to do such as going and fetching coal. With a hangover any task is a large task making it difficult for Cholly to fetch this coal, when he wouldn't do this task an altercation would arrouse.

**Mrs. Breedlove** : Mrs. Breedlove works hard to keep her household running. She is a stern mother who makes sure she always has a fire running to try to keep her family warm. Mrs. Breedlove can be too stern at times, and loves to pick fights with the man she once loved. Being a harsh companion Mrs. Breedlove makes Cholly harsh also. She's not a very excellent mother to Sammy and Pecola, always fighting her companion no matter if the children are awake or not.