Morrison’s method of telling the horrible climax of the story was interesting. She chose to narrate the rape from Cholly’s perspective, which makes it somewhat less nauseating to the reader than if Pecola or the third person narrator was explaining the event. Because it is shown in a detached way, and from Cholly’s viewpoint, it is much less graphic and horrifying. “Guilt and impotence rose in a bilious duet. What could he do for her-ever? What give her? What say to her?”(161) His emotions, which were clouded at the time by how drunk he was, make for a far less cruel depiction that if Pecola’s emotional state was visited during the event. While the reader of course sympathizes with Pecola, and is disturbed by Cholly’s act, Morrison does not make it too hard for the reader. Morrison was trying to raise awareness about the desolation which young African American girls felt during that time in history, as she states in the afterward: “I focused, therefore on how something as grotesque as the demonization of an entire race could take route inside the most delicate member of society-In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause, I chose a unique situation” (210).What I liked was that she brings this point home completely in her novel, but does not go too far in describing the horror of the rape. She reveals more about human suffering, and human experience, in drawing back this aspect, and as Maddie pointed out, we see the root of Cholly’s misguided issues in the flash back.