Answer:The dolls, at that time, were blond and had blue eyes. It made Pecola feel inferior and ugly when compared to white girls. She thought that she would only be accepted if she had blue eyes, and fitted this pattorn. Their parents also suffered from racial damage. Her mother experienced similar feelings to the ones Pecola had, and her father has been humiliated by white people before. Even though, all this hate helped Pecola to empower herself, different from Maureen Peal, Geraldine and Soaphead Church, that got angry and fell in depression.
