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The Bluest Eye In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who wishes for her eyes to turn blue so that she can look like all the light-skinned, blond and blue-eyed girls that are so beautiful. In the novel Morrison explores the ideas of where Pecola gets this notion of being ugly, and secondly, what the influences are of thinking this way. One question that is raised throughout …

…Claudia’s thinking has turned out differently, the other question is still in mind about whether Pecola is responsible. It seems as though there is no definite answer, although the right one seems to be that it is not her fault. It just doesn’t make sense to say that with all her background and everything that she experiences day in and day out that she is responsible for thinking the way that she does.