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It is the dream of every little girl to be beautiful. The most cherished possession of many little girls is a doll: a beautiful, blonde haired, blue-eyed doll. It is this image that young girls strive to attain. This image haunted Pecola Breedlove as she tried ....

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.... as possible. If people could just look closer, they might see the beauty in the dandelions and in Pecola. However, Pecola knew that this was not likely because of society's hate for her and she knew that, "Nobody loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 47). Pecola soon realizes that she will never be beautiful just how she is. As she looks affectionately at the dandelions, "they do not look at her and do not send love back" (Morrison 51). Pecola realizes that the dandelions are ugly and like them, she is merely an unwanted weed because she cannot be beautiful, like people she saw around her. Pecola saw many other things around her that she could ....