Analysis Of The Breedlove Family In The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

Change is inevitable, and it is a wave in a stormy ocean that can either bring a person down or lift them up. In Toni Morrison 's The Bluest Eye, the Breedlove family is dragged down by the constant reminder that they are not a beautiful family, and how they never will be. The standards of beauty corrupt the Breedlove family, causing Pauline to become insecure and take her insecurities out on her family; and Pecola 's friendships suffer, as well as her sanity from her many hardships. Considering Cholly 's and Pauline 's childhood, as well as their marriage, it foreshadowed that things would not be good for their children, Sammy and, especially, Pecola. Cholly 's insinuated incestual childhood with his Aunt Jimmy could be overlooked easily. The fact that it was in the middle of winter, and Aunt Jimmy wore a see-through nightgown just for Cholly to "sleep with her for warmth … and he could see her old, wrinkled breasts sagging in her nightgown" (132). Morrison gives the impression that it is not only just sleep but sex as well. Those were the times where he wondered what it would have been like if he were left for dead and not rescued. To wish that he were left …show more content…
Claudia was very confused as to white blonde hair and blue eyes were considered to be beautiful, and why black skin and brown eyes were ugly. When she was given a white baby doll, she tore it apart, craving nothing more than to know what made white people beautiful and loveable (21). Her sadism caused her to want to pinch the blue eyes, and hear the "fascinating cry of pain." She didn 't care about Shirley Temple, while Frieda and Pecola were all over her, worshipping her. So much so, that Pecola would always drink white milk, in a white Shirley Temple cup, just so she could see "sweet Shirley 's face" (23). Eventually, Claudia 's hatred for the blonde and blue eyes turned into a fake love as she adjusted her views of