Shirley Temple and Pecola

Everyone has had or currently has an obsession with a celebrity.  I'll admit it, I have mine too.  Every July you can find me crying at the local Warped Tour because the singer of *insert current favorite band name here* accidentally touched a piece of my hair when he was singing to some other girl squished up against the barricade with me.  My mother's and I stalked Mathew McConaughey a few summers ago in New York.  Some people have a stalker deep inside of them that they haven't quite revealed yet.
People read gossip magazines, follow their favorite stars on Twitter, and in certain cases, even write fake stories about them.  Everyone wants to be treated like a star.  Stars get the nicest things like fancy handbags from Prada and they can spend hundreds of dollars on cosmetic surgery if they don't like the way they look.

Celebrities get whatever they want.

Pecola has a fascination for Shirley Temple and her cuteness.  After watching a clip of Shirley Temple, I thought that she was cute, but she did not have the majority of the talent that her black co-star, Bojangles, did. Pecola may have only been longing for the physical looks that Shirley has.  The white celebrities at that time were treated better and were liked more by audiences.  Pecola may have not been looking for stardom, but also someone to like her in general.  She can connect with Frida over their like for Shirley Temple, but not Claudia.  I think that if anything, Pecola should have wished for a talent, particularly like the ones that Bojangles had, instead of wishing for something that is only on the outside.