The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye, is the drama-based novel written by Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison's debut novel, The Bluest Eye is published in 1970. Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl from an abusive environment, is the tragic protagonist of the narrative. Pecola, who is eleven years old, associate's beauty and social acceptance with whiteness, and wishes to have "the bluest eye."

The Bluest Eye tells the narrative of a young African American girl and her family, who are influenced by American society in every way. It relates the narrative of Pecola, an eleven-year-old African American girl who is described as impoverished, black, and ugly. The Bluest Eye is now regarded an American classic and a vital description of the African American experience after the Great Depression, despite being largely ignored.

The novel, through flashbacks, explores the younger years of both of Pecola's parents, Cholly and Pauline, and their struggles as African Americans in a largely White Anglo-Saxon Protestant community. Pauline now works as a servant for a wealthier white family. One day in the novel's present time, while Pecola is doing dishes, drunk Cholly rapes her. His motives are largely confusing, seemingly a combination of both love and hate. After raping her a second time, he flees, leaving her pregnant. Claudia and Frieda are the only two in community.