Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and "Sula"

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the strong maternal characters in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and "Sula" each have different ways of mothering their children, yet have something in common with one another. The author points out that each woman has had to endure some sort of suffering, which helped create the type of woman she is within the novel. The paper relates how Morrison depicts the internal suffering, which leads Pauline Breedlove in "The Bluest Eye" to be strong and Eva Peace in "Sula" to be powerful.

From the Paper:

"Pauline's suffering as both a young girl and a woman causes her to become hard and strong with her family, The Fishers and her community members. Pauline is ostracized by the black women in her community, so she embarrasses them by becoming a better Christian than they are. She is humiliated by Cholly and the ugliness of her children, so she works for a rich white family with a pretty little girl. This suffering enables her to become a harder worker and a stronger mother figure to both her children and the Fisher's little girl."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Plume, 1970.
• Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Plume, 1973.

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