This means that she has many experiences and she can put in feelings behind each of her pieces. The reasoning behind Morrison writing about a true real-life situation in the north during the 1960’s is because Morrison is a critic of several aspects of the Civil Rights Movement. The same theme led us into the Civil Rights Movement. This story goes completely against this description, which is another reason why it has literary merit. Ironically, this story was named The Bluest Eye. Sadly, this is what everyone sees as the ideal woman. The description is known very well to everyone, blonde hair and blue eyes. This goes along with the idea of the perfect girl.
Jacqueline Weever stated, “A woman may whiten her skin, straighten her hair and change its color, but she cannot change the color or her eyes. In this case her physiological and physical struggles are showing a strong side of a huge African American movement. In all of Morrison’s pieces she has a main point that shows the physiological and physical struggles in that specific society.
This also adds to reason for The Bluest Eye having literary merit. In laymans terms this means that every novel shows how someone views themselves, especially an African American female. In reality she is beautiful, but she does not realize it.Īs Dorothy Lee says, “Each novel reveals the acuity of her perception of psychological motivation-of the female especially, of the Black particularly, and of the human generally” (84). This once again is showing how Pecola thinks she is so ugly. “Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike” (Morrison 45). She should have seen herself as being beautiful but instead she judges herself based upon others looks. This is showing that she hates little white girls because they are seen to be the perfect people in society. The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls” (22). But the dismembering of dolls was not the true horror. Morrison writes in her book, “I destroyed white baby dolls. In the 1940’s, not everyone was aware that minorities could be beautiful. Those problems did in fact include racism, abuse, family issues, and struggling minorities.
When she was writing The Blues Eye, Morrison was attempting to make people realize that there are socially acceptable versions of beauty. Morrison writes, The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that to say something about why she had not, or possibly ever would have, the experience of what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration” (The Bluest 77). Morrison recalls in elementary school, a young friend told her that she wanted to have blue eyes.
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