The Bluest Eye Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity
In The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity, author Jane Kuez writes about how the community surrounding the characters in The Bluest Eye. The influence of movies and advertisements, even the wrappers of a favorite children’s candy, influence the young African American girls. Pecola can imagine herself as being just like the image of perfect white Mary Jane when she is eating the candies, just like she can one day dream she will have blue eyes like Shirley Temple. However, when things do not live up to her idealized expectations, when her life does not mirror what she sees in movies or in her Dick and Jane reader, she retreats inside herself. The ultimate withdrawal occurs after being raped by her father and being impregnated by him.
This essay covers much of the same territory as other essays I have read so far, but it does help to have another perspective on the subject of Pecola’s obsession with being blue eyed. This essay would help to relieve some of my reliance on other essays, making my final paper less one side.
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