Morrisons Bluest Eye Essay: Misdirected Anger Depicted -- Toni Morris

Mis tell Anger Depicted in The Bluest Eye In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shows that anger is healthy and that it is not something to be fe ared those who are not up to(p) to get angry are the ones who suffer the most. She criticizes Cholly, Polly, Claudia, Soaphead Church, the Mobile Girls, and Pecola because these blacks in her story wrongly rest home their anger on themselves, their own race, their family, or make up God, instead of being angry at those they should have been angry at whites. Pecola Breed bask suffered the most because she was the result of having others anger dumped on her, and she herself was unable to get angry. When Geraldine yells at her to get out of her house, Pecolas eyes were fixed on the pretty maam and her pretty house. Pecola does not stand up to Maureen Peal when she made playing period of her for seeing her dad naked but instead lets Freida and Claudia fight for her. alternatively of getting mad at Mr. Yacobowski for looking down on her, she d irected her anger toward the dandelions she once thought were beautiful. However, the anger will not grasp(50), and the feelings soon gave way to shame. Pecola was the sad product of having others anger placed on her All of our waste we dumped on her and she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us(205). They snarl beautiful next to her ugliness, wholesome next to her uncleanness, her poverty made them generous, her flunk made them strong, and her pain made them happier. When Pecolas father, Cholly Breedlove, was caught as a teenager in a field with Darlene by two white men, never did he once consider directing his curse toward the hunters(150), rather her directed his hatred towards... ...(than shame). There is a sense of being in anger. A earthly concern of presence. An awareness of worth(50). the blacks are not strong, only aggressive they are not compassionate, only polite they were not right, but well behaved they substituted good g rammar for intellect, and rearranged lies to make them truth(205). Most of all, they faked love where felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have with anger. Toni Morrison tells this story to show the sadness in the way that the blacks were compelled to place their anger on their own families and on their blackness instead of on whites who cause their misery. Although they didnt know this, The Thing to fear(and thus hate) was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us(74), whiteness. Works CitedMorrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Afterward by Toni Morrison. New York Penguin, 1994.