The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, is about a young, black girl growing up in a not so accepting America. Pecola, the protagonist in the book, is set apart from everyone. White people don’t want to associate themselves with her. And even black people don’t want to associate themselves with her either. She lives in this world that would ultimately destroy her and make her go insane. Critics Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Phyllis R. Klotman explore many major themes in the book that sheds light on Pecola’s family situation at hand.
In Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi criticism of The Bluest Eye she starts off by saying, Toni Morrison starts off her novel with three distinct versions of the Dick and Jane story. The first story is clear and easy …show more content…
She is the centripetal force bringing all the characters together. Cholly’s last name Breedlove becomes irony since deprived of love by his parents & society, he is expected to cultivate love. Geraldine’s cat, Bob the dog, and Pecola are scapegoats expected to cleanse American Society through their involvement is some violent rituals. And Geraldine represents the old black bourgeoisie. She has contempt and stereotyped views about the “lower class” Negroes as the outer society. Her attitude toward lower-class blacks becomes obvious when she encounters Pecola. In Morrison’s simplicity of style & sentence structure she builds themes of blindness invisibility, incest, and racism. She presents us with old problems in a fresh new language. In Phyllis R. Klotman criticism of The Bluest Eye she starts off by saying that education by the school society is the dominant theme of The Bluest …show more content…
her family and society ultimately led to her destruction but, Pecola led herself to her own destruction too. The first time we met Pecola in the novel she was already disowning herself when she inundated herself with milk just so she can see a glimpse of Shirley Temple. Pecola wished she was her, she didn’t feel comfortable being herself. Then, she prays for blue eyes which she believes will fix everything and answer all her problems. Her problem is that she’s living in a delusional world because in actuality it leads her to
In Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi criticism of The Bluest Eye she starts off by saying, Toni Morrison starts off her novel with three distinct versions of the Dick and Jane story. The first story is clear and easy …show more content…
She is the centripetal force bringing all the characters together. Cholly’s last name Breedlove becomes irony since deprived of love by his parents & society, he is expected to cultivate love. Geraldine’s cat, Bob the dog, and Pecola are scapegoats expected to cleanse American Society through their involvement is some violent rituals. And Geraldine represents the old black bourgeoisie. She has contempt and stereotyped views about the “lower class” Negroes as the outer society. Her attitude toward lower-class blacks becomes obvious when she encounters Pecola. In Morrison’s simplicity of style & sentence structure she builds themes of blindness invisibility, incest, and racism. She presents us with old problems in a fresh new language. In Phyllis R. Klotman criticism of The Bluest Eye she starts off by saying that education by the school society is the dominant theme of The Bluest …show more content…
her family and society ultimately led to her destruction but, Pecola led herself to her own destruction too. The first time we met Pecola in the novel she was already disowning herself when she inundated herself with milk just so she can see a glimpse of Shirley Temple. Pecola wished she was her, she didn’t feel comfortable being herself. Then, she prays for blue eyes which she believes will fix everything and answer all her problems. Her problem is that she’s living in a delusional world because in actuality it leads her to