THE BLUEST EYE,
A NOVEL
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(Holt, RineHart, Winston,
1970)
Tucked away on the fiction shelves of East Winston
Library is a seldom-read book by a talented young black
female author, Toni Morrison. This story is told in the
first person by ten-year-bid Claudia who learns much
about life, love and pain during the early 1940's.
Claudia and her sister Frieda belong to a staunch loving
family who, although of moderate means, providing
strong guidance and values for its members.
Living in Lorain, Ohio, they encounter the agony of integrated
schools, the arrogrance associated with beauty
and mulatto-skin, the torment of vengeful young boys
and envious young girls, the world of prostitution, the
hypocrisy of self-proclaimed Christians and the consequences
of alcoholism and incest.
Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds
in the fall of 1941. We thought at the time
that it was because Pecola was going to have
her father's baby that the marigolds did not
grow.
Twelve-year-old Pecola was not pretty by any means.
Her family was poor and her mother found pleasure in
giving time and attention to the wealthy white family for
which she worked. Time and attention which she failed to
give to her own.
Cholly, Pecola's father, could only find solace in the
bottle. And that day when he came home drunk and saw
Pecola standing at the sink scratching her leg with her
iooi, it reminded mm ot when he first saw her mother sitting
on the fence with her back to him scratching her leg
with her foot. At that moment Cholly loved Pecola. He
wanted to give her something of himself, he wanted to
give her-love in the only way he knew how Out
of the union grew a seed. Claudia and Frieda
thought that if they planted a seed in the ground and they
planted it deep enough, Pecola's baby would live.
It was a long time before my sister and I
admitted to ourselves that no green was going
*. .U> spring-'from-our seeds.I had planted
them too far down in the earth. It never
occured to either of us that the earth
itself might have been unyielding.
Cholly is dead, Pauline continues to work for the white
folks and Pecola's only consolation is in having blue
eyes. She always felt that if she had blue eyes people
would like her, that she would be pretty. And now she
walks around talking to herself and marvelling to herself
about her beauty which comes from the bluest eyes.
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