The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This week I continued to read "The Bluest Eye", by Toni Morrison, however the main conflict of the story has changed a lot.

Instead if the main issue being about racism like it was when i wrote my synthesis page, it has shifted to more sexism. Race still plays an extremely important role in the book. However I think now it is specifically talking about the struggles of black women. Currently, were hearing about the story of Cholly, Pecolas father. And even though it is about a boy, there's are really good example of misogyny for the time period. For example, we just heard a story about Cholly on his Aunt Jimmy's funeral day. Cholly and a girl named Darlene went and had sex in the woods, when they got caught by two white men. Cholly was so humiliated and furious. Except not at the men that caught them, that caused him the embarrassment, but at Darlene. "For now he hated the one who created the situation, the one who bore witness to his failure, his impotence. The one whom he had not been able to protect, to spare, to cover from the round moon glow of the flashlight". This all means Darlene. Morrison not onky included this story to explain why Cholly treated his wife so terribly, but also to send a bigger message. She not only wanted to explain why Cholly acted this way, but why any black man who beat his wife at the time this way. And even though the specific story may be unique, the feelings Cholly had were shred amongst many people similar to him. A lot of men in general just had this hatred of women. They were quicker to blame the women then the person who actually upset them.

I think this story is a really good reflection of the book. A lot of the story is what life was like being a black women in New York during the time period