“The Bluest Eye utilizes double-consciousness to expose the other in the self, contrasting black social immobility with black psychic development. The text reenacts the white constructions of beauty, order, and family to illustrate how the imposition of these standards on blacks prevents the development of a black identity based on African American cultural ritual.”(83)
The employment of double consciousness exposes the other identity within, Morrison outlines the definition of beauty based on the standards of White Americans. Experiencing, oppression is something Pecola is familiar with not by only Whites; nevertheless, Blacks that consider themselves to be more attractive than her. It prominent that her mother is more engulfed with The Fisher’s and poses as if she adores the white girls over her daughter. “When she bathed the Fisher girl it was in a porcelain tub with silver taps running infinite quantities of hot water.” After their bath, “she would put her in cuddly night clothes. Then she brushed the yellow hair, enjoying the roll and slip between her fingers” Soon she stopped trying to keep her own house” (Morrison 126). Pauline believed the things she had been of no value or beauty, “more …show more content…
Even though, he knows he cannot grant such wish he carries on requesting for Pecola to give him meat in return for his help, based on the dogs’ reaction. Once the dog reacts because of the meat being poisoned by Soaphead, the dog convulses and dies, shortly after Pecola runs away. Consequently, Soaphead speaks of her wish, “Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. A surge of love and understanding swept through him, but was quickly replaced with anger. A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes” (Morrison 176). The author displays the powerful desire Pecola has and belief of possessing blue
The employment of double consciousness exposes the other identity within, Morrison outlines the definition of beauty based on the standards of White Americans. Experiencing, oppression is something Pecola is familiar with not by only Whites; nevertheless, Blacks that consider themselves to be more attractive than her. It prominent that her mother is more engulfed with The Fisher’s and poses as if she adores the white girls over her daughter. “When she bathed the Fisher girl it was in a porcelain tub with silver taps running infinite quantities of hot water.” After their bath, “she would put her in cuddly night clothes. Then she brushed the yellow hair, enjoying the roll and slip between her fingers” Soon she stopped trying to keep her own house” (Morrison 126). Pauline believed the things she had been of no value or beauty, “more …show more content…
Even though, he knows he cannot grant such wish he carries on requesting for Pecola to give him meat in return for his help, based on the dogs’ reaction. Once the dog reacts because of the meat being poisoned by Soaphead, the dog convulses and dies, shortly after Pecola runs away. Consequently, Soaphead speaks of her wish, “Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. A surge of love and understanding swept through him, but was quickly replaced with anger. A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes” (Morrison 176). The author displays the powerful desire Pecola has and belief of possessing blue