Cholly Breedlove drinks excessively and later rapes Pecola. Not only is her mother distant and aloof, but Pecola's father is also unreliable for any comfort or support. Pecola's mother, Pauline, is cruel to her family because they are a constant reminder that her life can never measure up to the ideal world of the white family for which she works as a maid. However, the primary focus of the novel is on Pecola Breedlove, another young black girl who lives in very different circumstances from Claudia and her sister Frieda. Most of the novel is narrated by a young black girl, Claudia MacTeer, who is part of a poor but loving black family in Lorain, Ohio, in the 1940s. As Toni Morrison has become one of America's most celebrated contemporary authors, her first novel The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, has gained increasing attention from literary critics.
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