"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 Cla...