7) Winter

The weather changed and it became winter. In this section, a girl whose name was Maruen Peal came to the school. She had light skinned, brown long hair and green eyes. She was well-dressed because she came from a whealthy family. The boys from school liked her a lot and they made her feel to be the superior. Frieda and Claudia disliked her tried to find her fault. Boys taunted Pecola about her father's nakedness. They said that, he sleeps naked. And they started to argue but when Maruen came to the place, all the boys' interest gone through Maruen. Claudia said that; she was a boy-crazy and Maruen said that; girls are black and ugly.
Another important issue was Mr. Henry and Miss Marie and China's relationship. When they were having sex, girls came to the home and saw them. Because of Mrs. Breedlove's hatred of Mr. Henry, they decided to keep the secret.
Moreover, the writer wrote about another family which was Geraldine's family. Geraldine was a black woman who came from the South. She gave importance to her physical apperance and clothes a lot. She had a different relationship with her cat. She loved her cat more than her son Junior. She refused to giving importance to her family. Thus, he hated the cat and tortured the cat. She made fake orgasims and she did not enjoy having sex with her husband Louis. Although she was a black woman she catagorised people into 2 sections which were the upper class colored people and the lower class niggers. She thought that colored people were quite and neat , black people were loud and dirty. She wanted to Junior play with the colored children not the black children. One day, when Pecola and Junior at Geraldine's home, an accident occured and the cat died. But Junior blamed on Pecola that killed the cat. In reality, he killed the cat. When Geraldine saw the cat, she called Pecola "nasty little black bitch".