The Bluest Eye

            
            
            
             The novel is divided into the four seasons.
            
            
             It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets.
             At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other.
             The African-American community of Lorain, Ohio suffers from internalize racism.
             Autumn 1940.
             The European part of World War II had just begun full force.
             Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events.
             Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls.
             These features reflects the Aryan ideal.
             The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes.
             Seasons.
             The novel is divided into four seasons, but it pointedly refuses to meet the expectations of these seasons:.
             Spring.
             The traditional time of rebirth, reminds Claudia of being whipped with new switches, and it is the season when Pecola is raped.
             Autumn.
             Pecola's baby dies, the season of harvesting.
             Morrison uses natural cycles to underline the unnaturalness and misery of her characters' experiences. To some degree, she also questions the benevolvence of nature, as when Claudia wonders whether the earth itself might have been unyielding to someone like Pecola (p. 164).
             The House.
             The novel begins with a sentence from a Dick-and-Jane narrative: "Here is the house." Homes not only indicate socioeconomic status in this novel, but they also symbolize the emotional situations and values of the characters who inhabit them.
             The Breedlove.
             appartment.
             used to be a storefront.
             the furniture was dilapidated.
             no love and comfort (no good memories).
             cold (like the cold atmosphere).
             a brutal family life.
             The MacTeers.
             have their own small house.
             is poor but "loving" (for instance when Claudia is ill).
             "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die" (p. 7).
             The society.
             The story implicates that Pecola like so many other African-Americans, never had a chance to grow and succeed because she live in a racist society.