Morrison uses the phrase “wildly fitting in its incoherence” (Morrison 65) to characterize the rhyme the schoolboys taunt Pecola with, and the phrase helps capture the frustrating chaotic nature of their hatred. The words themselves are an image of this illogical predicament. “Wildly fitting” by itself is a conundrum, as “wildly” connotes uncontainable or out of control action—opposite of the orderly and neatly appropriate “fitting”. But just as it is tempting to rest there, in the appropriate place of order, Morrison bounces the reader back to “incoherence”. How do these contradictory words make sense? When Freida and Claudia come across the school boys tormenting Pecola, Claudia narrates that nature of the ridicule: “They had extemporized