Contrasts between the Dick-and-June world and the “real” world of the Breedloves are structured around several sets of binary oppositions: White/Black, affluence/poverty, desirability/undesirability, order/chaos, valued/ devalued. Juxtapositions of the two narratives not only reinforce the dominant theme of the novel but illuminate the novel’s textual processes. It is read and deconstructed by the lived experiences of the Breedloves. The Dick-and-Jane frame has as its referent not only the primer but the cultural values of the dominant society. The Bluest Eye depicts the struggle between two warring factions. The novel illustrates concept of the relationship between authoritative and internally persuasive discourses. Cultural domination is seen as a struggle between two competing discourses: a codification of reality whose legitimacy is asserted (the Dick-and-Jane myth), and an alternative (oppositional) representation that challenges and threatens to displace the first (the “real” story of the Breedloves). Morrison portrays Claudia” “If I pinched them, their eyes-unlike the crazed glint of the baby doll’s eyes-would fold in pain, and their cry would not be the sound of an icebox door, but a fascinating cry of pain” (34). The novel suggests closure through its exploration of the tragedy of Pecola, mediated within the frame of the Dick-and-Jane story, and its evocation of the marigold symbol to signify Claudia’s passage from ignorance to knowledge. The Bluest Eye develops its dominant themes through the interplay of two narratives: Claudia MacTeer’s rite of passage and the disintegration of Pecola’s life. The ideals of beauty are based on contrasted characters of a white and black woman. The Morrison goal, then, is the construction of well-wrought ideals of black women that portrays a mythical Afro-American community. She focuses primarily on the “village” or the “tribe.” Moreover, every minor detail is considered in terms of its effect before it is incorporated in her works. They represent a homogeneous Black culture from which the author calls materials to construct her fictional worlds. Morrison portrays that black women characters are considered as common women and never portrayed as beautiful. Many black women characters feel they do not meet standards of beauty because of false social values and ideals imposed by “white” community.

Morrison’s emphasis on form manifests itself through a conscious framing of the narrative that demands specific interpretations by the reader but also suggests closings and resolutions. In the novel, The Bluest Eye Morrison depicts life and grievances of black women and their self-identity.

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