Originally published: 1970
Author: Toni Morrison
Genres: Novel, Bildungsroman, and Coming-of-age story
Characters: Pecola Breedlove, Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and more
Pages: 224 pp (hardcover edition)
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Cholly returns home one day, finds Pecola washing dishes, and rapes her. When Pecola's mother finds her unconscious on the floor, she disbelieves Pecola's story ...
Mar 14, 2024 · The story was in part true; it was based on a conversation with a childhood friend who wanted blue eyes. “Implicit in her desire,” Morrison ...
The Bluest Eye by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, published in 1970, is a profound exploration of race, beauty, and identity in 1940s America.
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove—a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others ...