As I began reading this section I could actually feel the mood of the story shifting from slightly ominous mood to one of feeling that the doom had already come and gone. I also discovered some themes expressed very plainly in the text, one being the place of a woman in society -- pretty much just the "typical" 50's housewife. In the very first chapter of this section there is a family being described who I originally believed to be the Breedloves, the family of the main character, but it turned out to be a whole other family that Pecola Breedlove simply interacted with a member of. There are more references to eyes in this section of the book; I still have yet to figure out the symbol/theme/meaning behind these references for this particular book, but I plan on finding that out soon. As with the section titled Fall, the section titled winter ended with some sort of description of sorts of the physical transition from Winter (the section ending) and into spring (the next upcoming section), which could also be some philosophical commentary on the shift of seasons that also would pertain to the meaning of the novel. Something that is also a similarity is the way that the Spring section starts off with a bit of commentary that is comparative of Spring to some broad-ish event that has/will happen in the novel. More specifically, the Spring section starts off with a comparison of spring (typically a symbol of cheer and youth/birth) to things that are just awful and down right unhappy.
There is some possible foreshadowing that could be very prevalent references to the stories before the "seasons" began. As in Tar Baby, the eye motif is given in the way that each set of eyes is given a name, i.e. rain-soaked eyes. So I have come to the conclusion that the symbol/theme that I believed to be blue is actually just colors in general with some focuses on blue, black, and white. Towards the end of this group of pages the reader is given a scene in which Mrs. Breedlove chastises her own daughter but the coddles some white child of the white woman she works for. In this passage we also see the mother's obsession with beauty and her thoughts on the beauty of her own daughter. This probably gives a lot of credence to the title of the book, and why Pecola feels the way she does and wishes what she does about her appearance and her thoughts on beauty.
There is some possible foreshadowing that could be very prevalent references to the stories before the "seasons" began. As in Tar Baby, the eye motif is given in the way that each set of eyes is given a name, i.e. rain-soaked eyes. So I have come to the conclusion that the symbol/theme that I believed to be blue is actually just colors in general with some focuses on blue, black, and white. Towards the end of this group of pages the reader is given a scene in which Mrs. Breedlove chastises her own daughter but the coddles some white child of the white woman she works for. In this passage we also see the mother's obsession with beauty and her thoughts on the beauty of her own daughter. This probably gives a lot of credence to the title of the book, and why Pecola feels the way she does and wishes what she does about her appearance and her thoughts on beauty.