Novel Application of, “The Bluest Eye.” By Rodney Harris Jr
This Bluest Eye starts in the 1939 and ends in 1941, in Lorain, Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama. It has several characters who all live in the same house. The main characters are Mrs. Breedlove, Claudia, Frieda, Pecola Breedlove, Mrs. Macteer, and Cholly Breedlove. The story is narrated by Claudia, the daughter of Mrs. Macteer, looking back to her childhood as an adult, she’s the youngest of the three girls. Who often feels left out especially in an incident in the beginning where Pecola the oldest of the three, menstruates for the first time and she gets stuck washing the steps while Frieda takes cares of the whole situation. Claudia, unlike Pecola, is the opposite of what her mother thinks she should be as a little girl. Other girls like dolls, she destroys them, other girls, like dresses, she like to play in the mud. “I knew that the doll represented what they thought was my fondest wish. I was bemused with the thing itself, and the way it looked. What was I supposed to do with it? Pretend I was its mother? I had no interest in babies or the concept of motherhood.” (p.20). She had one concept when it came to things like dolls, destroy. These three girls, the two sisters Frieda and Claudia, and Pecola Breedlove take you on adventures of their perspective of what their world is like growing up with a Mrs. Macteer, mother of Frieda and Claudia, and Mrs. Breedlove, a
