The Bluest Eye is a long poetic journey of broken spirits. The setting of this novel takes place in a time where black and white people recently began to reside amongst one another in the 1940s. Throughout this heartrending story, ideas of racism, irretrievable confidence, and mere self-pity loom in this interracial community; however, one can raise the question, if there is not any direct oppression of black people by the white people, how does racism function in The Bluest Eye? The protagonist of the story is Pecola Breedlove, but the novel is narrated by a character named Claudia Macteer a childhood friend of Pecola. Pecola is a victim of many victims. She suffered endless abuse, rejection and self loathing due to growing up in a society
