In The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove moves in with her friend after her father, Cholly, disappears.Pecola's mother, Pauline, married Cholly because he was one of the only people in. The narration itself alternates between first person and. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrisons own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. Sadly, not very many try to. These editions also include a new afterword by the author. Geraldine calls Pecola a nasty little black bitch and orders her to leave.
Pecola is the ultimate victim, but those who victimize her are victims, too—victims of past brutality, victims of hopelessness, victims of self-hatred. She wishes for a miracle that will give her blue eyes. Pecola Breedlove is eleven, and in the eyes of the world and in her own eyes her blackness makes her ugly. She creates a kind of genealogy of brutality, showing how it's passed down from from white to black, from parent to child, finally settling on the head of the weakest and most innocent: a little girl.
She sees inside her characters the innocence and vulnerability that become warped by living a hard life in a racist society.bluest eye winter. Morrison refuses to slip into easy judgment of her characters, even those who are violent and mean and commit unforgivable acts, because she knows where that violence and meanness comes from. It's a hard novel, but an important one that should not be missed.
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