The omnipresence of this color makes it powerful and authoritative. Blue, here, symbolizes the colonial power of the whites where they stand superior to the blacks and the colored people. Like the title of the novel suggests, the story revolves around either directly or indirectly to the color blue. The minute detailed descriptions by Morrison successfully weaves out a visually intense novel portraying the struggles of the Black community in the 1940s. The novel is a product of Claudia’s innocent understanding of her childhood experiences critiqued by the narratorial voice of her present adult self. Through the eyes of a nine year old, Claudia Macteer, almost a mirror image of the author herself, Morrison uses this character as a vehicle to explore the different ideas of race, gender and community. ‘The Bluest Eye’ is a novel that has been conceived by Morrison in her recollection of a conversation she had had in her childhood with a friend who desired to have blue eyes. Morrison adopts an autobiographical style of writing in which she selects the town where she grew up as the center stage for the development and progression of the plot. The novel is constructed in the timeline of the 1940s America with the location set in Lorain, Ohio. ‘The Bluest Eye’ written by Chloe Anthony Wofford under the pen name Toni Morrison was published in 1970.
“…all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured.”
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