I was taken away by the beauty of her craftily word and the depth of her thought. I promised myself not to stop until I read all of her work. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is the first novel, published in 1970. The Nobel laureate’s winner sets a high bar, which she continues to raise with every new literary masterpiece. The Bluest Eye incorporates a lot of characteristics of Morrison's future novels, as well as it discusses some of the main themes, such as sexism, gender roles, lustful desire, broken
In The Bluest Eye, racism played a big role. In the book, white people were seen as the superior race. There were many examples, and one example was Claudia’s doll. She had a white girl doll that had yellow hair, blue eyes, pearly teeth and red bowline lips. “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs-all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow haired, pink skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” (Morrison 20). Claudia continues to caress the doll, wondering why