The novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison focuses on one of many African American family who migrated from south to north to seek a better life but later became a quest for their individual identity. Since they have moved from farmland to an urban area, there had been a major change in their value system. Where they used to value family love and support more than anything, they now are in materialistic culture which values are standardized by the whites. Difficult living conditions and racism naturally led them to believe the stereotypes about themselves and begin to imagine that whites are superior in beauty, morality, and intelligence. This eventually led the Breedlove family to accept the fact that they are unworthy and starts to hate themselves. This novel tells us how self-hatred could be dangerous and how it became a variable for the downfall for the Breedloves.
             The worst victim of self-hatred is Pecola Breedlove. She is little black girl with very low self-esteem. Daily mockery from her classmates and adults made her think that she is ugly. "Black e mo. Black e mo. Yadaddsleepnekked. Black e mo...." (Morrison 65). "You nasty little bitch. Get out of my house" (Morrison 92) Eventually, her mean society has made her believe that she is ugly and the only way to become beautiful was to have blue eyes. She prayed night after night that she will wake up with blue eye. Lack of love and support from society and her own family , she naturally desires acceptance and the love of society and her family. Pecola thinks that the only way to be accepted is to have blue eyes like Shirley Temple. "If I looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different....Maybe they would say, 'Why look at pretty eyed Pecola. We mustn't do bad things in front those pretty eyes''' (Morrison 46). At the end of the novel, after Cholly rapes her, she goes insane and believes that she...