I find that Morrison does not provide a definitive answer as to what she would have us do with The Bluest Eye. By this I mean, she does not provide the answer to the problems laid out in the text like how to resolve the issues of self-worth for African Americans in a society where whites create the standards of worth. Likewise, even when I assumed Morrison provides a narrative that is deterministic in nature, it does not necessarily hold true in that Claudia’s character would have no reason to write about these accounts if not for the fact that she is hoping to inspire change. With that said, I still found Morrison’s text to be a model of examining the inherent social injustices within our past/current society both in its cultural values and
