Her mother Pauline always felt isolated like hers and believes that she is unattractive and like what she observed in the movies, romantic love is only for the beautiful. She lets her husband continue his hideous behaviour in order to bolster her as a martyr. When she is at work, she is more alive especially when she is cleaning a white's woman house because she loves this house more than her house. Meanwhile, Cholly, Pecola's father forsaken him and he only lived with his great aunt but also died unexpectedly when he was a young teenager. He was also chastened by two white men who discover him having sex for the first time and forced them to continue while they are watching. He leave the town to find his father but he refuses him. And when he met Pauline, he is a miserable man. Time passes by, he has lost interest in life and feels trapped in his