Essays on Claudia Macteer

In Toni Morrison’s historical fiction novel, The Bluest Eye, the internalization of Eurocentric standards of beauty and how they damage the lives of African American girls and women are closely depicted. Through her carefully crafted chapters, Morrison also illustrates the effect a discriminatory social system can have on a race of people and how it may wear down their minds and souls often inclining them to hate their culture, heritage, and even their own appearances. I believe that The Bluest…

Tony Morrison ended up being the prominent American writer of the second half of the 20th century primarily due to the fact that of her novel "The Bluest Eye" published in 1970. The family relations, appeal and ugliness, ruthlessness and love are in the focus of the novel. The book is narrated by a young black woman, Claudia MacTeer and the reader realizes through her understanding the atmosphere in the household of her buddy Pecola Breedlove. The family relations in…