Dick and Jane

When first reading the book the Dick and Jane primer in the beginning really threw me off. When Prof. Zimmerman talked about how it represented an idealism of the perfect family, it made more sense. When you take out the spaces and punctuation it all gets jumbled together. I think that is a representation of how the view of a perfect family can be skewed. It's not always what we see. The primer also connects to the flowers the girls plan in an effort to save Pecola's baby. Flowers can be associated with the "ideal" happy family. The flowers don't grow, Pecola's baby is not saved, and of course they don't have an "ideal" happy family.