The Bluest Eye

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The Bluest Eye

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Book Summary

Toni Morrison Biography

Childhood to Womanhood

Teaching and Writing

About The Bluest Eye

Introduction

Structure of The Bluest Eye

Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Here is the house.

Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.

Autumn: Nuns go by as quiet as lust . . .

Autumn: HEREISTHEHOUSE . . . There is an abandoned store . . .

Autumn: HEREISTHEFAMILY . . . The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because . . .

Winter: My daddy's face is a study.

Winter: SEETHECAT . . . They come from Mobile.

Spring: The first twigs are thin . . .

Spring: SEEMOTHER . . . The easiest thing to do would be to build . . .

Spring: SEEFATHER . . . When Cholly was four days old . . .

Spring: SEETHEDOG . . . Once there was an old man who loved things . . .

Summer: I have only to break . . .

Summer: LOOKLOOK . . . How many times a minute are you going to look inside . . . ?

Summer: So it was.

Character List

Character Analysis

Pecola Breedlove

Claudia and Frieda Macteer

Pauline

Cholly Breedlove

Soaphead Church (Elihue Micah Whitcomb)

Critical Essay

An Overview of The Bluest Eye

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