![]() ![]() Innocence is another theme tied to the color blue. The color can also be associated with intelligence, signifying Pecola's desperation to overcome her social situation to such an extent that she ignores logic and embraces the impossible instead, that she should magically be given blue eyes. I always thought it was also significant that blue is a color typically associated with depression and unhappiness, something Pecola is closely acquainted with. "The Bluest Eye", with its superlative of "blue", indicates her deep-rooted desire to change, to become the most different version of herself possible, since she hates her current self. She doesn't actually want the blue eyes for the sake of having blue eyes, she wants them for the positive treatment she sees people with blue eyes getting (rather than her brown ones), so, in a manner of speaking, it's herself that she wants to become blue. ![]() I always thought that it was "eye" instead of "eyes" because it is a homonym to "I", as in a person - in this case Pecola Breedlove. Her first novel depicts what Jan Furman terms 'black girlhood'and what Agnes Surányi calls 'black female experience from childhood to womanhood'(12, 11). (view spoiler) [Note: this answer isn't official in any way, just what I thought when reading it. This article examines in particular Morrisons first and last (to date) novels: The Bluest Eye (1970) and A Mercy (2008). ![]()
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