and blue eyes. Although the novel does takes place in 1941, a time where racism and division of white people and coloured people still existed. Therefore it is not remarkable that such beauty standards exists. Throughout the story it is clear that Pecola’s only desire is to have blue eyes. She truly
The novel mirrors issues and theories like rejection, beauty, love, sex, racism, feminism and eco-feminism. It expresses the theme of disruption and unnatural disturbances of seasons connected to Pecola’s [a girl child and the protagonist] life. It is a tale of a black girl obsessed with a pair of blue eyes who is a victim of racial rejection. The novel focuses about being hated and resistance to contempt of others by the most vulnerable and delicate
ruined and they have no right to live. However, they are independent unlike, Pauline, Pecola's mother who is depended on her job because of money. Furthermore, the name of Pecola's family (Breedlove) is very ironical. As a matter of fact, this family has no relation with love; Cholly, the father, hates his children and Pauline, the mother, prefers the Fisher family whom she works at because "power, praise, and luxury were hers in this household", (Morrison, 128). In addition, there is a whole chapter in
with blue eyes, she will be accepted by the society and that everything that is being done and said to her would eventually stop. She experienced a lot of racial oppression and receives a confirmation of her own sense of ugliness. Pauline Breedlove, Pecola’s mother is also one of the people who made her feel that she is ugly. Pauline wanted a white child more because she thinks that being black is ugly. She encourages her husband’s behavior to be able to bring back her own role as a martyr. The father
Pecola the protagonist of the novel longs for the bluest eyes ultimately ends up her life with mental issues. Born as a black girl she admires white beauty and blue eyes which is rejected plainly for the blacks. It is very hard for the blacks to lead their life as a children as well as an adult. As a child blacks face many humiliations and hatred. It is even difficult and different in the case of black girls where the girls are raped and treated very badly. but for adults the humiliations are different
household of abuse can warp a person’s understanding of how healthy relationships function. In the novel, a girl named Pecola is abused by her relatives and friends. She suffers traumatic experiences that she lives with for the rest of her life. Pecola’s parents Cholly and Pauline Breedlove always abused each other in front of Pecola and her brother, Sammy. This leads the kids to not understand what love really is. In the beginning of the novel, Pecola only has two friends out of all of the kids
as beautiful, and from these thoughts she begin to hate the beauty of the white children. Pecola once visits her mother at her working place with her friends; she tries to ouch the silvery pan near the stove to see if it was hot. Pan tilts under Pecola’s fingers and falls to the floor, splattering blackish blueberries everywhere. Mrs. Breedlove enters and slaps her and in a voice thin with anger says, “Crazy fool . . . my floor, mess . . . look what you . . .work . . . get on out . . . now that
The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison in 1970, consists of multiple interlocking stories, denoting a most powerful being, Cholly Breedlove, Pecola’s father. Cholly Breedlove is a man who has suffered through abhorrent bearings, degradation, condescension, abuse, and isolation. Isolated in a society defined by racism, economic inequality, and fanaticism, he was not only shunned but was considered barbarous. Left desolated by racism and violence, he spiraled into madness and violence. His daughter
Through her statement on the impairment that internalized racism can do to the most vulnerable member of a community— Pecola; a young girl, Morrison jumps out of the tradition of African-American literature that “Portrays racism as a definite evil” (Eichelberger, 1999, p.59). Whiteness within this novel is said to be the symbol of goodness and innocence. The blacks in the novel are unhappy that they are not part of the dominant race. The main characters in this novel are marginalized people. Their