Beauty In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

The overall meaning to the book, The Bluest Eye, is beauty is such an impact that a person will go to the extreme to fit in. For example, Pecola wants to have blue eyes like Shirley Temple, the most beloved little girl in that time. She believes if she does the following that all her problems will fade away and she’ll be the beautiful girl. “ Pecola wishes that she had blue eyes. She thinks that if her eyes were blue, and therefore beautiful according to white American standards, then her problems would go away and her life would be beautiful. Then maybe, her classmates and teachers would not despise her and think she was so ugly. She so hates herself that she stares at herself in the mirror trying to figure out where her ugliness comes from.” Cholly, the father of Pecola, is not a sympathetic character because he had a choice to do his sinful deed to his daughter. People might defend him by saying ‘He had a troublesome life when his mother and father left him’ or ‘He was not thinking properly. He was thinking of his wife.” Well, I disagree because just because those dramatic things happened to him does not mean he had to …show more content…
His great aunt later then dies leaving Cholly with no one who actually cares about him. Cholly now has no one to keep him in line, so he is basically on his own as a young teenager. Claudia comes from a good hearted family while Pecola comes from a corrupted family.She is a young girl talking about adult problems. I believe that Claudia, the narrator, learns how bad one family, in the same class, can have it verses her family. I feel like she has learned about cruel life, relationships, distinction, and love from other people’s personal experience, like the whole Breedlove Family. I believe there are no other ways Claudia could’ve helped Pecola. She was her friend when she needed one, or when she helped her with her ministerial