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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
CliffsNotes on The Bluest Eye discusses Toni Morrison's first novel, which focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely black girl living in Ohio in the 1940s. Pecola sees the power and cruelty of white, middle-class definitions of beauty and is driven mad by her obsession for white skin and blonde hair — and not just blue eyes, but the bluest ones. Morrison divides The Bluest Eye into separate time sequences, as told by a grown Claudia MacTeer.
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Claudia and Frieda want Pecola’s baby to live in order to
- have someone for Pecola to love
- validate their own blackness
- have their own parents adopt it as their new sibling
- underscore the universal love for white baby dolls
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Claudia and Frieda want Pecola’s baby to live in order to
