The Breedlove family had the internalized belief that they were ugly. No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly.” Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique. “They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly. This idea was seen in many aspects of culture.Ģ. “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs – all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” Society promoted the idea that white blue eyed girls with blonde hair were the most beautiful. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison the characters live in a society where whiteness is the epitome of beauty, causing black girls and women struggle with self love.ġ.
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