Cholly has difficulty expressing the care he has for his daughter Pecola. Cholly's twisted attempt to show affection to her daughter involves sex. In this scene, Cholly demonstrates his inner struggle, “hatred would not let him take her in his arms, tenderness forced him to cover her” (163). He encounters these mixed feelings in a state of liminality when he leaves her on the kitchen floor covered with a blanket. Cholly thinks he shows her the only loving attention she has ever received, he touches her when no one else would, and he also took pleasure in having a body that everyone calls ugly. Cholly's rape of his own daughter culminates, as his last name suggests he can only reproduce, not love. His aggressive act towards his daughter only leaves him with his fantasy of having blue eyes, thus leading her to