Marguerite's Dream

In Marguerite's dreams, she sees herself as a white girl. "Wouldn't they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream, and my real hair, which was long and blond, wold take the mass of the kinky mass that Momma wouldn't let me straighten? My light blue eyes were going to hypnotize them, after all the things they said about 'my daddy must have been a Chinaman' (I thought they meant made out of china, like a cup) because my eyes were all small and squinty."

After she describes her dream, she tells us how she really looks. Black hair, skinny legs, broad shoulders, big feet, and a huge gap in between her teeth.