The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

Every society has different views on women and mental health from how they should act, look and behave. These expectations from society that are giving have an effect on a women’s mental health as they will question things that they do that isn’t normal to society’s standards, which leads to them and people thinking they are going crazy and have some type of mental condition. In “The Bluest Eye” the perspective of what beauty based on race is and what is considered ugly affects women’s mental state also, as they lose sense of who they are and try to change. While in the “The Yellowest Wall-Paper a person is diagnosed when an illness they start to think differently as if there is nothing they can do, which convinces there mind that they have
Society depicts how a person should be based on a race and what gender they are and this cause the person to look at them and compare them to what is considered the standard in society. This is especially true for women in society as they are taught what is considered beautiful and if they are different then they are ugly. There is some type of expectation for women to look a certain way. In “The Bluest Eyes” by Toni Morrison depicts beauty for women as being those with white light skin and blue eyes, better known as “white beauty” and those with dark skin to be ugly. So race is also playing a part in this because it’s saying that those who are black or of different color aren’t beautiful, but ugly. This has a psychological effect on women as people would make fun of them and treat them differently causing them to have confidence issues. As well as since they didn’t look a certain way it would cause them to try and change to meet society’s definition of beauty at the cost of losing themselves. An example of this is in the book Pauline (Mrs. Breedlove) learns of society’s standard of beauty and its starts to change her in a negative way to fit that image. She begins to believe and see that beauty is nothing more than just appearance’s and