The Bluest Eye :: essays research papers

&9Misdirection of arouse "Anger is better than shame. There is a sense oforganism in choler. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth."(50) This is howmany of the blacks in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye mat. They faked love whenthey matte powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have with arouse.The Bluest Eye shows the way that the blacks were compelled to buttocks their arouse on their own families and on their own blackness rather of on the whitepeople who were the cause of their misery. In this manner, they kept their angercirculating among themselves, in effect oppressing themselves, at the same timethey were being oppressed by the white people. Pecola Breedlove was a youngblack girl, increase up in Lorain, Ohio in the early 1940s. Her life was one of the well-nigh difficult in the novel, for she was almost totally alone. She suffered themost because she had to withstand having others anger dumped on her,internalized this hate, and was unable t o get angry herself. Over the course ofthe novel, this anger destroys her from the inside. When Geraldine yells at herto get out of her house, Pecolas eyes were fixed on the " clean" lady and her"pretty" house. Pecola does not stand up to Maureen Peal when she make fun ofher for seeing her dad naked but instead lets Freida and Claudia bear on for her.Instead of getting mad at Mr. Yacobowski for looking down on her, she directedher anger toward the dandelions that she once thought were beautiful. Thedandelions also represent her project of her blackness, once she may havethought that she was beautiful, but like the dandelions, she promptly follows themajorities view. However, "the anger will not hold"(50), and the feelings soongave way to shame. Pecola was the dismal product of having others anger placedon her "All of our waste we dumped on her and she absorbed. And all of ourbeauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us"(205). The other bl ackpeople felt beautiful next to her ugliness, wholesome next to her uncleanness,her poverty made them generous, her impuissance made them strong, and her painmade them happier. In effect, they were oppressing her the same way the whiteswere oppressing them. When Pecolas father, Cholly Breedlove, was caught asa teenager in a field with Darlene by 2 white men, "never did he once considerdirecting his shame toward the hunters"(150), rather her directed his hatredtowards the girl because hating the white men would " consume" him.