Slavery, colonial, subjection, the color bar, second class citizenship, segregation, discrimination, what does the Africans do of it all ?. The novel explores a black community in a particular time and place Lorin, Ohio, in the 1940s and shows the tragic that results from a racial society. The general story line of the novel explores and comments on the black-self-hatred. The novel is a complex investigation of the idea of physical beauty among blacks and whites. Nearly all the main characters in The Bluest Eye who are African American are consumed with the constant culturally imposed of white beauty. The Breedlove family for instance, has serious problems with self-esteem. They go through life believing in their ugliness. Most of the black
