[13] Writing Back to Morrison 2

The Bluest Eye , Page 74:

"Jealousy we understood and thought natural - a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange new feeling for me. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The thing to fear was the thing that made her beautiful, and not us."

In this part of the novel they discuss jealousy, and give the definition of it, but then she states that envy is a new feeling for "us." I do agree that they girls didn't fear Maureen for being an enemy but because of the fact that her beauty is what makes them fear her. But they describe envy as a new feeling, isn't envy and jealousy the same thing?