In the novel The Bluest Eye the author Toni morrison introduces us the narrator Claudia Macteer. Claudia narrates her life and the environment she was raised in. At the beginning of the story Claudia lives with her loving family and a friend of hers-Pecola Breedlove the protagonist. Pecola is temporarily staying with the Macteer’s because of a family complication she was facing. Although pecola and Claudia were raised in a similar neighborhood the two characters have a polar opposite ideas what is beautiful. Pecola believes that beauty is what she sees when she drinks milk out of the sheril temple cup.When she looks at herself and she sees that she is lacking the things the white girls have. This idea of that there is a default in being black …show more content…
The characters in the story were based in the city the author was most familiar with- the author’s home town. Another thing that connects the author and the main character’s is the time of occurrence. The author would have been the similar age with the girl’s age at the time of these events. According to the during the time that the story takes place (1941) was a time in us history was the time that the country was coming out of the great depression. This means the country and it’s citizens have not yet built comfortable lives. Many were poor, and suffered because of that. In the book the mother “ took on the full responsibility and recognition of breadwinner (Morrison 141).” The family was poor and pecola’s mother had to feed everyone in the family, because of that she didn’t have time to pay attention or show love to the siblings. The time made it hard for pecola to feel confident and happy about her looks also. At the time most of the kids saw Shirley Temple as an idol, who was a blond haired and blue eyed. Pecola and Frieda (the narrator’s sister) “had a loving conversation about how cu-ute Shirley Temple was (Morrison