The Cultural Issues Toni Morrison Shows in The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon Most of Toni Morrison’s novels speak about cultural issues. These issues are centered around the black community, especially the women. An issue shown in The Bluest Eye is self-hate. Another issue shown in the Song of Solomon is financial greed. An analysis of The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon shows Morrison’s religious allusions, symbol of obsession, and a theme of escaping. First, Morrison uses religious allusions in Song of Solomon. All the characters’ names are people from the Holy Bible. The title, itself, is a name of a book from the Bible. In The Bluest Eye, Pecola is being raped twice is an allusion to a mythology where Philomela is raped twice, also.
