Pecola as devastated and secluded character in Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye"

Abstract

This paper explores the nature of racial inequality in America, both in terms of its historical variations and contemporary realities represented by a selected woman character (Pecola) in Toni Morrison’s work The bluest eye. Pecola believes that beauty and self-respect are connected with the color of the skin and whiteness, Toni Morrison as a black writer wants to reflect the struggles and difficulties which confront the black women community in the united states represented by her black character girl Pecola , she can’t accept herself as a black girl in white people society and search for a way to get rid of her self-loathing and her low self-respect, this way of thinking shows how the white beauty standards affect on the black community. Morrison through out her work wants to make the world aware of the misery and gloomy life of the black women in united states , Pecola has nothing to do with her black skin and its her nature , as one kind of racism , Pecola ill-treated and degraded and this is the reason of her desire that pushed her to wish to gain blue eyes , to be accepted black girl by her community and settle in peace.