And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes -Ī puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.' Tired enough to look forward to death, disinterested enough to accept the idea of pain while ignoring the presence of pain. They were old enough to be irritable when and where they chose,

They alone could walk the roads of Mississippi, the lanes of Georgia, the fields of Alabama unmolested. They were through with lust and lactation, beyond tears and terror. With relief they wrapped their heads in rags, and their breasts in flannel eased their feet into felt. They had given over the lives of their own children and tendered their grandchildren. Servants, high-yellow children, preachers, drunks, whores and those abiding back women who so torment Daniel Moynihans: But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.' She proceeds to tell us how, and thus explains why, in a series of portraits of 'ideal' domestic 'There is really nothing more to say,' writes We are told at the outset that Pecola Breedlove, age 11, is impregnated by her own father Pecola will live and her child will die.

It all takes place in Lorain, Ohio, a sort of black Winesburg. Photograph that appears in our reading primers, and she does it with a prose so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry. Miss Morrison exposes the negative of the Dick-and-Jane-and-Mother-and-Father-and-Dog-and-Cat The 'bluest eye' refers to the blue eyes of the blond American myth, by which standard the black-skinned and brown-eyed always measure up as inadequate. The beauty in this case is black the wasting is done by a cultural engine that seems to have been designed specifically to murder possibilities Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' is an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country.

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