She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... Our cultural knowledge and values that are central to the blues form the thematic and rhetorical understanding of The Bluest Eye, as the narrative's structure appears to follow a pattern common to traditional blues lyrics. Morrison moves the different aspects of the culture in a pattern that can be compared with traditional blues lyrics, starting with an initial emphasis on loss and concluding with a resolution of grief through motion. Moses allows us to unders...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate