The Bluest Eyes, By Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eyes written by Toni Morrison narrates the story of a young black girl that suffers with a desire to have the bluest eyes in town. It is a heartbreaking novel based on the facts that racial beauty in the sixties was a necessary action, the standards established by a white society that determined the aesthetic parameters, had to open its spectrum to include as natural in its bosom the "beauty" in another color; in black. This necessary affirmation of the black beauty should not be a reaction only against the self-buff, the humoristic critique of the condition of being black, the common racial weaknesses in all groups, but against the unfounded ideas of inferiority linked to an external gaze that is reflected in the depths of the people …show more content…
Others found in him his greatest pretension. A toy appears as a product of racial distinction, there were no black dolls for black girls, a contrasting element, interpreted in terms of the condition of blacks as a denial of their existence by those who produced these elements. It was a way of exercising one type of power before the other, of eliminating it, before the impossibility of including it in a society whose referents were limited to a single world; The white …show more content…
The girl glimpses a reflection of hope before her first menstruation, this event makes her capable of begetting, can have children, be something more than what has been up to that moment. From a young age Pecola is forced to believe that she is no good and invisible. This encounter with the store owner is just another reminder of her “ugliness” or “blackness”. Pecola never harmed the store owner but he automatically looks past her because she is African American. This is just another example on how Pecola is never given the chance in society to believe she is good because no matter where she went she was being reminded of the “distaste” of her