so i just wanted to prove a point on how mr cholly duz not feel luv or express any sort of luv in the passage we've been studying the past 2 dayz.
rape 1 |rāp|
noun
the crime, committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with him without their consent and against their will, esp. by the threat or use of violence against them.
I think it would be necessary to point out that yes, it is true that just because is violent towards someone does not mean they do not love them but if we were to take the relationship that Mr. Cholly has with his family as a whole instead of only analyzing his psyche at the moment in the passage, then we'd realize that that relationship has been deterred because of him. That familial bond is no longer existant.
His relationship with Pauline has become purely sexual and abusive yet only for him. We could even suggest that the rape scene with Pecola is only a way for him to remember what he and Pauline used to have, which is why she is compared to her mother, which is why the narrator says he did feel love. It was in no way a love that he was feeling for Pecola but in fact it was a feeling of love that he was trying to remember through the image Pecola was projecting in his mind.
Mr. Cholly, as frustrated with his life as he was, saw no other option but to seek some sort of escape from the reality he was living in. Because of the one instant that Pecola reminded him of what he used to have with Pauline he jumped onto what he saw as an opportunity of escape, which in a sense just puts him in the same situation as so many characters in the The Bluest Eye - he's just another character trying to escape by grabbing onto something that is only fictional, in his head, and surreal - a dream.
