![]() Pecola Breedlove, Morrison’s representation of all young black girls at the time, desires to have blue eyes, the definitive symbol of whiteness and beauty. Toni Morrison, the author of the remarkable novel, The Bluest Eye, explores the endeavors of characters from both perspectives conforming, rather than subverting, to the rules of institutionalized beauty characters such as Pecola and Geraldine, reflections of young black girls and women at the time who suffered from the internalized racism and desperately searched for ways to retain their beauty to escape the grotesque perspective of society. However, when a woman’s “whiteness” became the standard of beauty across the 1940s white-dominated society, African American females faced the wrath of their own community through the rise of internalized racism, which defined beautiful women as lighter-skin colored females while demeaning those with a darker skin color. ![]() ![]() Beauty plays an important role in a woman’s femininity it gives a woman confidence and acceptance from society. ![]()
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