Through her statement on the impairment that internalized racism can do to the most vulnerable member of a community— Pecola; a young girl, Morrison jumps out of the tradition of African-American literature that “Portrays racism as a definite evil” (Eichelberger, 1999, p.59). Whiteness within this novel is said to be the symbol of goodness and innocence. The blacks in the novel are unhappy that they are not part of the dominant race. The main characters in this novel are marginalized people. Their status in the society causes them to feel subjugated.
Cholly, the father of Pecola has also been a victim of racism and emotional abuse since his childhood; it makes him person who cannot show love or express his feelings. He suffers from racism
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This novel “…shows racism’s damaging effects on the black community at large and on black families” (Kubitschek, 27). In The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove realizes the supremacy of white society and longs to have the features of white females. She prays God to give the bluest eye in the world. This word reveals the eagerness to have even more finer features than white …show more content…
He is the storehouse of all the sickness of internalized racism. He comes into the narrative only at the end of the novel, where Morrison attempts to give his full history in too short a space before continuing the narrative about Pecola. He is the one disgraceful African-American character in the novel and a child molester who believes he is better than God. Having dallied with the priesthood in the Anglican Church, he abandoned it to become a caseworker. (Morrison Pg 165) He became a “Reader, Adviser, and Interpreter of Dreams.” It was a profession that suited him well. (Morrison