What do you think is the blame for Pecola Breedloves failure in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"?

Answer 1

She suffers devastation of racial images and its resulting estrangement from society.

Since no one taught black pride in public schools during the 30’s, Pecola's budding self-worth was brutalized and left to die by peers and adults alike who disparaged and made fun of her blackness while labeling her “ugly.” Moreover, in that Pecola was too young to have a fully developed or clear sense of her “self,” she saw herself through the eyes of others and believed it to be true. By comparison, Rachel is already an adult who was doted upon as a child and, after her mother’s death, by her father and aunts. As a result, her already fully developed sense of “self” remains intact even while attack by Terence, her fiancée, who feels it his duty as well as his right, as a superior male, to let her know how she fails to measure up in his eyes. He has no qualms about telling her, "you're not beautiful ... Your mouth's too big, and your cheeks would be better if you had more color in them. But what I like about your face is that it makes me wonder what the devil you're thinking about?




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Answer 2

This link has everything that you’re likely to need to analyse the book.

http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/bluest.htm

Excerpt

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel. Rosemary Villanucci, our next-door friend who lives above her father's cafe, sits in a 1939 Buick eating bread and butter.

http://www.oprah.com/obc/pastbooks/toni_morrison/obc_pb_20000427.jhtml

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