POLLY BREEDLOVE -- NEGATIVE
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I think Polly Breedlove is scared. She is scared to leave her husband even though she knows that she is in a bad relationship. Cholly is a drunk and is barely ever home. She said the only time he was...
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I also think Polly Breedlove is a follower. I think she is a follower because when she moved up north she tried to make friends. Then she met a few black women but she still felt uncomfortable. She...
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Polly felt controlled by her husband but often tried to hide these feelings by sticking up for herself but always in the end she failed. When she worked for the white woman doing housework she was...
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Deformed. Polly seems mentally and physically deformed, one as a result of the other. Polly sees her deformity as unfixable, maybe as a result of her social status or as a result of her subconscious....
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--Lonely and LostPolly lives in her own little world throughout the book. She thinks shes ugly (has a deformed foot) and knows she has a terrible marriage with her husband. Throughout the novel she...
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I think Polly is a selfish and narrow minded person. Throughout the whole book all she does is think about herself and treat herlself and her kids like trash. For instance when her daughter pecola...
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I think that Polly is uneasy about herself and the choices she made in life. Polly as we find out in the beginning of the novel is deformed, but her relationship with her family is also deformed. She...
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Polly Breedlove is Pecola's mother, she is married to Cholly Breedlove who is an abusive drunk. Polly likes to pick fights with Cholly for no reason, this shows her insecurity with her husband. Polly...
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Polly Breedlove treats her daughter, Pecola meanly and cruel because of the way that she looks (ugly). She does realize though that she is also really ugly, but does not always look at herself that...
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Polly doesnt know how to love her children or herself at all. As a child, she was isolated from the rest of her family and is now doing the some to her family, extremely affected by this are her...
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I think the thing that makes Polly Breedlove a bad person is not her looks, not her husband, but her outlook on herself and life and how she takes it out on her daughter. She had intentionally had a...
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I definately think that Polly is uneasy about herself. She feels she is ugly, and has an ugly daughter. She is married to an abusive drunk and likes to start fights...no good can come out of any of...
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I think polly is uneasy about herself, and takes it out on her family. She is constantly trying to pick fights with her husband. ALthough she is capable of beating him, why waste the tiime? She should...
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Polly is very neglectful for her family, and only expresses love and concern for the white family she takes care of. With the Fisher's "Power, praise, and luxury were hers" (pg. 12 and that was more...
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Polly is very rude and insecure. She married an alcoholic and she grew up with a bad family. She was raised to think she was ugly so she raised her kids to be the same way, that is why Pecola is also...
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