Irony

As the story of "The Bluest Eye" progresses, we come across the scene where Pecola enters the home of the three prostitutes. Pecola describes the prostitutes with nothing but positive statements. Stating that Poland has a "sweet and hard voice" voice that is like "new strawberries." (Morrison 51) China is described as "forever and forever curling her hair," giving her this eternal aura of perfection(52). Marie is given an always positive and optimistic personality,  "Marie threw back her head...  Laughter came like the sound of many rivers, freely, deeply, muddied, heading for the room of an open sea." (52) The three, even though despised by most of the world, are portrayed in the most glorious and beautiful descriptions found in the book so far. This is ironic.  The decent characters in the book are mangled and tainted with negative descriptions of physical and emotional ugliness; yet the three "whores"  are washed with positive remarks by Pecola. To Pecola, the three prostitutes are far better people than what the majority view as normal decent people. The question of why arises.  Maybe it's because the three prostitutes are few of the only people that do not look down on Pecola; maybe Morrison is trying to tell us that what defines one is not one's job but one's treatment towards others and his/her personality.