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The Bluest Eye
Misdirection of Anger "Anger is better [than shame]. There is a sense of
being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth."(50) This is how
many of the blacks in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye felt. They faked love when
they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have with anger.
The Bluest Eye shows the way that the blacks were compelled to place their
anger on their own families …
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…able 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 place their anger on themselves, their own race, their family,
or even God, instead of being angry at those they should have been angry at:
whites. Although they didn't know it, "The Thing to fear was the Thing that made
her beautiful, and not us."(74)
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