Bluest Eyeby Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye reveals that the vision of America in Lorain, Ohio in 1941 had a warped and racist standard of beauty. ... Its is obvious that Pecola wishes that she looked like the silhouette of Shirley on the cup she drank from, and Toni Morrison even goes as far as saying that the Breedloves, Pecola’s family, were all ugly. ... Another Character in The Bluest Eye who is affected by the hierarchy of beauty is Geraldine. ... The Bluest Eye demonstrates the ways in which white beauty standards affect the lives of young black females in Lorain, Ohio in 1941. ... This idealization of whites in the movies had a deep impact on society of the 1940’s, and its effects are evident in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.