Americans of 1939 treasured blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls. The cup that bears Shirley Temple's image is blue and white, symbolizing the eye and skin color of the idealized white society. By drawing this connection, Morrison fixes the American standard of beauty with connotations of violence and genocide, because these skin and eye colors, on dolls and little girls, were also symbols of the Aryan ideal of how one should look. The character, Claudia, seems aware of the danger the representations of these idealized white people and dolls pose to her and will not allow herself to be fooled. She destroys the white dolls, which were given to her as gifts, and fantasizes about attacking living white girls. Claudia is angry because society cherishes white skin and blue eyes and thus can never consider her, a black girl, to be beautiful. Mr. Henry makes the girls happy in the beginning by telling the young sisters they look like Hollywood stars, whom are white, which suggest to be a star and be beautiful one must be white.
Pecola's fixation with blue eyes, discussion of ugliness, and part which narrates her trip to buy candy all deal with a relationship between beauty, ugliness, and hatred. The drama between Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove illustrates the power of societies construction in shaping the Breedloves' ugliness and their belief in that ugliness. The narrator also says that the Breedloves saw proof of their own ugliness in "every billboard, every movie, every glance", emphasizing the role of social constructions in creating the idea of ugliness. Pecola's interaction with the shopkeeper is important. Eye imagery fills the scene, as the shopkeeper cannot "see" Pecola. To see her would be to see her as a person. To him, Pecola is nothing, and she in turn can see in his eyes that she means nothing to him. Moments like these make Pecola's delusion that she is hideous worse.
Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. ... In 1965 she started writing 'The Bluest Eye." ... " The characters in the bluest eye show exactly why such a movement was needed. ... Pecola Breedlove is the central figure in "The Bluest Eye." ... "The Bluest Eye" focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely adolescent black girl in the late 1940's. ...
Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ... There are two major metaphors in The Bluest Eye, one of marigolds and one of dandelions. ...
Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... The narrative structure of The Bluest Eye is important in revealing just how pervasive and destructive social racism is. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ...
Fighting, drinking, seducing Abusive, impulsive, vulnerable Charles (Cholly) Breedlove In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the protagonist was Pecola Breedlove and the antagonist was her father, Cholly Breedlove. ... The Bluest Eye. ...
The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy tone of the novel. ... The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. ... Moses expresses the fact that in traditional blues songs, the singer is the subject, however, in The Bluest Eye, Claudia tells Pecola's story instead,...
In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. ... The Bluest Eye shows ways in which white beauty standards hurt the lives of black girls and women. ... The characters in the Bluest Eye are faced both directly and indirectly by racism. ... Three characters from The Bluest Eye that I will be describing are Pecola , Claudia and Pauline. ... Toni Morrison shows us what racism produces in the Bluest Eye. ...
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest...
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest e...
