He claims that he can help, but in exchange for a favor. 2 The traumatized girl loses touch with reality and goes to the priest and swindler Elihue Micah Whitcomb, nicknamed Soaphead Church, with a request to make her eyes blue. She gets pregnant after he rapes her a second time. One spring evening, Pecola is raped by his drunken father. Her mother, Pauline, fends off the problems by an orderly life, continuous cleaning, and working as a maid in a white family.
Moreover, he suffers constant humiliation because of the color of his skin. She watches her father, Cholly Breedlove, who becomes increasingly violent and frustrated as his dreams are shattered. Blue eyes are a symbol of whiteness for the little girl. She believes that her life would be better and easier if she were white, too. Pecola Breedlove, a dark-skinned girl, lives in a world owned by whites. The story begins in 1940, it is told on behalf of nine-year-old Claudia MacTeer, Pecola’s only friend, who is younger than the main character for two years. Nevertheless, this book addresses some crucial issues, such as appearance stereotypes, racism, and femininity, and depicts complex relationships between the main characters. The Bluest Eye “portrays the tragedy, which results when African Americans have no resources with which to fight the standards presented to them by the white culture.” 1 The novel was banned in many American schools because of vulgar and obscene language, as well as sexually explicit descriptions.
The author tells the story about the tragic fate and death of Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl whose mother knew that her dark-skinned child would grow up ugly. Toni Morrison wrote her first and famous novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.
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