Cholly

what does the section about cholly tell us about him psychologically? How have his experiences as a young man shaped him into the father /man /husband That we see throughout the novel?

This section tell us that Cholly is psychologically unstable because of his experiences at a young age. He dealt with being abandoned by his mother, the death of his Aunt Jimmy and the scene with the white hunters in the field. He witnessed and experienced these at a young age and did not know how to understand it all at once. These experiences lead to built up anger and guilt. Cholly did not understand the role of a father because he grew up without one. He found this figure in others around him. He does not know how to express love like a normal father would. Instead he goes way pass this and treats his daughter as equal to his wife. Cholly fell in love with his wife Pauline but was abusive to her when they got married. This changes when he rapes his daughter Pecola when he is drunk and filled with guilt. Throughout this novel we see how there was two sides to the incident and how Cholly was still wrong in both point of views.