Pecola and Pecola

I can't tell you how surprised and happy I was when I turned to the last chapter of The Bluest Eye and realized that it was dialogue. While I was reading it, I thought that it actually was one of her friends. For example, it would totally be plausible that two friends would say "You’re just jealous." and "I am not." It wasn't until we were in the seminar and someone pointed out that she was talking to an imaginary friend that it was imaginary.
This spurred me to wonder why people would have imaginary friends in the first place or how people could have the cognitive and imaginative power to create entities that have their own thoughts and wills. After some research, it became that imaginary friends aren't something to be scoffed at. Statistically, 37% of children have imaginary friends, and, unsurprisingly, is largely due to trying to cope with traumatic experiences and fear. This can explain why Morrison would create such a friend for Pecola in the last chapter. Having given up everything in her life to achieve blue eyes, Pecola has found herself in a lonesome and unfulfilled life where her end goal of getting blue eyes has left her with nothing but more concern and obsession. To cope with this, she strives for confirmation with an imaginary friend to make sure that she has made the right choice in her life, but in reality, it's to comfort her. The use of an imaginary friend has allowed Morrison to translate these same connotations and meanings to the reader without having to full out say it.