"The Bluest Eye" by Tony Morrison

"The Bluest Eye"

"The Bluest Eye" is first novel written by an American-African novelist Toni Morrison and published inn1970. The novel is tragic study of black girl named Pecola and her desire to acheive blue eyes in order to get beautiful but consequencly her desire lead her towards madness. Along with this story line, the novel deals with rascism in American society and how it brings out inferiority complex among black people living in American society. The point of view of the novel switches between various perspectives of Claudia MacTeer, the daughter of Pecola's foster mother.

It is the story of Pecola, who is rejected by white American society as being ugly, as a result she desires for blue eyes to be equated with whiteness.

Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
Claudia Mac Teer
Frieda Mac Teer
Cholly Breedlove
Pauline Breedlove
Sam Breedlove

The novel opens after the Great Depression, in the fall of 1941,in Lorain, Ohio. Nine year old Claudia MacTeer and 10 year old sister, Frieda, live with their parents in an "old, cold amd green" house. With the beginning of novel, the lives of Claudia and Frieda takes an interesting changes as Pecola goes to live with MacTeers, as her father tries to burn down the family house as well as MacTeer family also decides to take in boarder Mr. Henry.

Pecola's family life is quite difficult, her father, Cholly used to drink and abuses her mother, Pecola becomes a victim of their constant fighting. All this situations enable Pecola to think that, if she were beautiful, she would be liked by all as well as her parents would be nicer to each other. She equates beauty with whiteness.

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