there are four family members including her father Cholly, her mother Pauline, her brother Sam and herself. Pecola’s father is a violent and abusive alcoholic, and he never offers Pecola any comfort or support. Pecola’s mother is a servant in a tidy and orderly white family. She always holds the opinion that Pecola’s plain appearance is incapable of deserving her love; therefore, Pecola was often neglected and abused by her mother. In addition to the unhappy family, she was constently ridiculed by her classmates in school, and alienated by her neighbors in the black community. For herself, Pecola does not satisfy with her own appearance; she always believes that she is not attractive because all the people around her regard the white as the standard of beauty. Consequently, the little black girl ascribes all her misery to her ugly appearance and not having blue eyes. And she believes that if she had a pair of blue eyes, she would obtain more love from her parents and her destiny would be totally transformed. Unfortunately, her beautiful dream and the ugly reality come into collision. It was a spring afternoon, an unexpected thing happened. Cholly went home after drinking a lot of alcohol, he found only Pecola was at home at that time, and then he raped her own daughter Pecola. Afterwards, Pecola was pregnant, and she was expelled from school. In order to escape from the miserable reality, Pecola became more and more eager to have a pair of blue eyes after suffering a series of injury events. So she turned to a pastor, Soaphead, and requested him to give her a pair of blue eyes. However, he deceived Pecola. The liar pastor promised Pecola to realize her wish, but there was a prerequisite that Pecola must perform. Soaphead wanted to get rid of a sick dog for long; therefore, he gave Pecola a piece of poisonous meat to feed the dog. Then, the dog painfully struggled after eating the poisonous meat and eventually died. Pecola was extremely scared after witnessing the whole thing. Having suffered a series of terrible events, Cholly’s incestuous rape and the disillusion of her dream, Pecola finally got into madness. It is the sharp contrast between her beautiful dream and the afflicting reality that leads to Pecola’s mental disorder. Living in her own mad world, Pecola believed that she has achieved the beautiful dream with a pair of the bluest eyes in the end.
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2 Theoretical Foundations
2.1 Introduction to Trauma Theory
Trauma, as its name implies, obviously refers to a kind of pain. The word previously originated from a Greek word, which means the injury or the wound to one’s body. Gradually, the concept of trauma can also refer to a psychological damage as a result of a strong emotional blow. According to the Austrian psycholog
