The bluest eye
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and
professor. It is Morrison's first novel, written while she was teaching at Howard University and
was raising her two sons on her own.
It is a novel publiched in 1970. It is set in 1941 in Ohio.
The main character is Pecola Breedlove, a poor black girl who believes she is ugly. Then there is
her father, Cholly Breedlove, who is an alcoholic and her two best friends Claudia and Frieda
MacTeer.
Claudia and Frieda MacTeer live in Ohio with their parents. The MacTeer family takes two other
people into their home, Mr. Henry and Pecola. Pecola is a troubled young girl with a hard life.
Her parents are constantly fighting, both physically and verbally. Pecola is continually being told
and reminded of what an "ugly" girl she is and that's why she thinks that if her eyes were blue,
things would be different, she would be pretty. Pecola eventually moves back in with her family.
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