Not only does Pecola think blue eyes will give her beauty, but that they are going to change her way of viewing things. She often thinks that “if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different” (46). Even if she is black, with brown eyes, she feels blue eyes will solve all of her problems. Pecola, finally, comes to the conclusion that having blue eyes would make her beautiful. Pecola, on the other hand, conforms to the white perceptions of beauty and often tries to “discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates like” (45). Claudia views the blue eyes partnership with beauty, with hostility. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me” (20). Claudia, for example, feels nothing but bitterness to her blue eyed dolls. Although, two characters, Claudia and Pecola, acknowledge the lue eyes in different ways.
The blue eyes symbolize the beauty and prestige that is associated with being white. Having blue eyes is defined as something to be treasured by Morrison, in her novel. “All the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl treasured” (21). In the novel, the image of perfect beauty would be someone with white skin, blonde hair, and most importantly blue eyes. The first literary device that Toni Morrison uses in The Bluest Eye is symbolism. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses symbolism, narrator point of view, and allusions to the 1930’s childhood book, Dick and Jane, to show that society’s perception of white beauty can affect many girls, in the black community, aking them feel envy and hatred, towards those who have white features. Pecola is now constantly terrorized by the thought that someone could have bluer eyes than her, for she wants the bluest eye. At the end of the novel, Pecola became crazy and began thinking that she has blue eyes. When Pecola’s baby dies, so does some of her.
Pecola has a very hard life and at the age of eleven, she gets raped by her father, which results in a pregnancy.Ĭlaudia, another black girl in the story, is the only one who wants Pecola’s baby to live, but tragically it didn’t. She believes that the only way she can be beautiful and accepted is if she has blue eyes like the white actress, Shirley Temple, or the white dolls she gets every year for Christmas. Throughout The Bluest Eye, Pecola is told she is ugly from a very young age. Pecola’s life is told from the point of views of herself, Claudia, and an omniscient narrator. Carter 3 Taylor Carter DecemA6 Krygier The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye is a tragic story about a young girl black girl, named Pecola.
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