Claudia and Frieda aren't friends with Pecola anymore. The girls used to see Pecola after the baby was born and died. They were her friends when the gossip was flying and people would turn their heads away from her on the street.
Now Pecola walks up and down the streets in some sort of madness with her head jerking all the time and her arms bent like wings but this isn't the reason the sisters don't see her anymore. They girls stay away because they think they have failed her. The seeds they planted in their own backyard never grew and they think this has had some part in Pecola's downfall.
Pecola and her mother live in a little house on the edge of town now. Cholly died in a workhouse and her brother ran away.....
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