Hoez, Hoez Everywhere

As I was reading The Bluest Eye where Pecola interacts with the "whores," I noticed the whole scene was very similar to Edith Piaf's experience in La Vie En Rose. In both works, the authors' perception of these prostitutes congrue. They "did not belong to those generations of prostitutes created in novels, with great and generous hearts, dedicated because of the horror of circumstance...they weren't young girls in whores' clothing, or whores regretting their loss of innocence. They were whores in whores' clothing, who had never been young and had no word for innocence." (57). These are whores that hated men, not in a cliche-kind-of-way, but in a ain't-nobody-got-time-fo'-that way. These are whores that prefer spending time with a little girl and teaching her about life and men, like she was their own little girl. They take the reality they are given as it comes, and are fine with it. Coincidence? I DON'T HAVE A CLUE.
That's the thing with this book. I never know. 

I just wanted to say that word corrected me when I typed ain't. It suggested I should type Ann's or Anita. Racist word. 

I figured this novel has a lot of irony. It often intends to be funny with topics that are actually very harsh and difficult to talk about. For example, in this same part with the prostitutes, the three women laughed and made jokes about their poverty and loss of dignity as Marie "threw back her head. From deep inside, her laughter came like the sound of many rivers, freely, deeply, muddily, heading for the room of an open sea." (52).  It is not funny, it's actually pretty sad how easy it is to come down from all to nothing. Yet Morrison insits in making them laugh about this. A bit cynical. 

Going back to aesthetics, in this part a great influence of it is found. They're all old, trying to look like they are twenty again, but the more make up they put on (a social construct made for people to think they will fit in if they use it) the more harassed they looked like. Contradicting, huh? How society uses the enemy's strength at its favor. 

What I don't get is, how come a book narrated with such innocence contains absolutely the opposite? R-H-E-T-O-R-I-C.