Sense of a class divide as well as race-with Geraldine, her son, Louis Junior, and Maureen Peal, along with the white characters, the Fishers and Mr. Yacobowski, all of whom look down on the rest of the characters.
The MacTeers, Frieda and Claudia and their parents, who are mostly invisible, but obviously pretty good parents
Pecola is invisible and has no sense of self, everyone else sees her as ugly and she is willing to accept the role
Recommended reads from members of the group:
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow
Well Read Black Girl by Glory Edim, ed.
Other key moments we discussed:
Soaphead Church and his damaged self, damaging others.
Cholly, Pecola's horrible father, experiencing first sexual experience when forced into rape.
Dick and Jane portions at the start of the chapters, with normal spacing at first and then eventually running together, showing disintegration, this is the way the world is supposed to be. Reading Dick and Jane as a taunt.
China, Poland, and Miss Marie (the Maginot Line), in many ways the happiest and most (maybe) well adjusted characters (most honest?) in the book
Wednesday night:
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