Pluto

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

Surely this is a story about gaze, internalization, violence, and abuse as well as about gender and race.

And it is really a sad story, about innocence and innoccence lost....I could not but grieve over Pecola, who is so obssessed with blue eyes, with the desire of being loved.

The truth is, we all want to be loved....sometimes the desire is so strong that we refuse to see what we are, to realize that what we crave so much for is indeed nothing but a sweet illusion. We all think that as long as we have "the thing" then we will be loved. But we could never obtain it just as the blue eyes could never be blue enough.