

He later got to meet Pauline while he was a rootless wild man. He searched for his father but got rejected. Pecola’s father, Cholly, was an abandoned child raised by an aunt who later died in his teenage years. She cleans a white woman’s home, and it makes her hate her own. She is not opposed to her husband’s violence since it makes her a martyr.

She loves movies, but they make her believe in her ugliness and that only the beautiful deserve love. Pauline, Pecola’s mother, is partially lame and often feels isolated. She is even accused wrongfully of killing a cat belonging to a certain boy. Her friend and other boys make fun of her several times. Pecola believes she is ugly because she is not white, and because she lacks blue eyes. Sammy, Pecola’s brother, runs away often.

Her father is a drunk and mother is distant, they often fight. A girl going by the name Pecola, whose father attempted to burn their home returns to her family, and life does not get better. Their parents do not pay much attention to them as they are busy providing for the family. The Summarized PlotĬlaudia and Frieda live in Ohio. The novel is divided into different sections named after the seasons and has two narrators both the same person but during different times. The Bluest Eye is a novel by a prized novelist Toni Morrison who won a Nobel Prize for his works which confront the issue of racism and its consequences in the United States.
