Analysis of Toni Morrison's
Toni Morrison's premier novel, The Bluest Eye, is a tale of one girl's battle against herself and the society surrounding her. The author tells the story of young Pecola Breedlove growing up with a vast amount of hatred around her in order to display the impact society has on people. Society pressures the ugly to be beautiful, and a little black girl to pray nightly for two bright, blue eyes to replace the dullness of her own brown ones. The blue eyes Pecola dream for obviously represents her wish to be white. Blue eyes are associated with beauty and only the fair-skinned can obtain this eye color. Being a black girl in the 1940's is an automatic shun in society when this books takes place. Not to mention the Breedlove family consists of Pecola's father Cholly Breedlove (whom eventually rapes and impregnates her), an unloving mother named Pauline, and a juvenile delinquent brother named Sammy. Pecola's family is part of the reason she becomes a social outcast, even though the poor girl has actually never done one thing against her little town. Morrison shows the way the general public can be bias towards an individual they may have never even talked to just because of family issues, their race
"She looks up at him to see the vacuum where curiosity out to lodge. Edition updated with new afterward in 1994. The main reason why Pecola has a poor self-image is because of the people around her, but also because she just will not let herself be happy. Maybe they'd say (her parents), "Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. With thoughts of dandelions in mind, Pecola enters the penny store only to be treated as she is some sort of animal. We mustn't do bad things in front of those pretty eyes" (Morrison 46). Later in the novel, Pecola goes to the character of Soaphead Church to "give" her blue eyes. Growing up in the 40's and being a young black girl herself at the time, Morrison knows how tough it was to not be sucked in by society's standard of beauty. beautiful, she herself would be different. Pecola's tale is a story that can relate to anyone who is burdened by other people's perception of attractiveness. the distaste must be for her, her blackness"(Morrison 49). Since she identified with the flowers before with herself, she is now doing so again and calls herself ugly. Pecola states that she believes her eyes aren't "blue enough for something" (Morrison 203) therefore she now has a new goal to thrive for.
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