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
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