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They sleep around, they refute religion, they are full of makeup, they are surrounded by smoke and they are overweight. Pecola befriends the prostitutes who live above her, who are impure in their own nature. The appearance and home of the Breedloves is poor and ugly. At first, it presents a sick Claudia plagued with bronchial symptoms and flu, locked in an ‘old, cold and green’ house. Morrison continually places the idea and image of dirt and impurity, both figuratively and literally, in each new environment. Or his characters such as Pecola, Frieda, Pauline, and the narrator Claudia, who once mentioned in the novel that three things have affected her life a lot: being a girl, being black and being a girl. This novel does a good job by describing the life of black women and it is even better that is written by a black woman, Morrison has described the gender disparity throughout the world. Even if an evil person loves in an evil way, he can still love. Despite that love can be distorted, Morrison points out that everyone can, in fact, love. It can be seen as a very pessimistic view, stating that true love can only be achieved if the lover is a good and honest person, this can also be seen as uplifting. Evil people love evil, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly ‘While Cholly definitely loves, the core of his personality forces him to manifest this love in a violent way. As Claudia points out in the final chapter of this novel, ‘Love is never better than the lover. While this sounds like something beautiful, it is actually the violent rape that serves as the climax of the story. Cholly is the only character in the entire book who can see past Pecca’s seemingly disgusting shell enough to touch it. The biggest example of this is the relationship that Cholly has with her daughter Pecola. Morrison sees love as a dynamic force, which can be extremely damaging depending on who is making love.