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A 3.5 page analysis of Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye. In this novel, a little black girl, Pecola Breedlove, longs to have blue eyes because everyone she has ever met, and everything in her environment, either consciously or unconsciously, has consistently upheld an ideal of beauty in front of her, and that ideal is white‹white skin, long blond hair and blue eyes‹the cultural epitome of beauty, which is culturally equated with being good. Morrison dramatically reveals what happens to a person's sense of self-worth when their individuality and personal appearance are totally negated by the society in which they live. No additional sources cited.
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consciously or unconsciously, has consistently upheld an ideal of beauty in front of her, and that ideal is white?white skin, long blond hair and blue eyes?the cultural epitome of
beauty, which is culturally equated with being good. Pecola believes that she is ugly because her classmates, people at the playground, people in the community, literally everyone she comes in
contact with reflect this attitude. Worst of all, however, her family believes she is ugly, and that they, themselves, are ugly also.
"It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one (of the Breedloves) a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question" (Morrison
34). Pecola, mother, in particular, has accepted completely the standard of beauty that is portrayed at the movies. Set in the 1930s,
there are no black people represented in American culture to send a contrasting message to women like Pecolas mother, Pauline. "She was never able, after her education in the movies,
to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen"
(Morrison 97). Consequently, Pauline Breedlove becomes more and more wrapped up in her life as the servant of a white family, and more and more rejecting of herself and her
own daughter. When the daughter of the white family that she works for comes into the Breedlove house one day looking for Pecolas mother, she startles Pecola, who drops
a pie, the little white girl starts to cry. Pauline Breedlove hits Pecola so hard she knocks her down, then she jerks her up and slaps her again before
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