The Bluest Eye

 Morrison is one of my favorite classics authors and I’ve been slowly making my way through her novels. I was expecting to love this one but it fell a little flat for me.

I enjoyed the beginning of the book but the latter half was confusing. I didn’t feel engaged to any of the characters because the story is about a young girl, Pecola, but it’s not told from her perspective and lots of background characters tell their stories of the past and how they became who they are today. I feel like it took away from Pecola, so the book wasn’t what I expected.

As always Morrison covers dark, difficult topics while writing in such beautiful prose. I loved her writing style but it felt like the story was hidden by a lot of symbolism that I don’t truly understand a lot of what was being said. Morrison also mentioned in the foreword that she was later unsatisfied with how she structured the story that was meant “to be reassembled by the reader” so maybe I would’ve connected more if it was told in a different way? But I also have to acknowledge that as a white reviewer, I’m not the target audience and therefore I recommend checking out more own voices reviews of Morrison’s work as they can do the books more justice.