the bluest eye

The Bluest Eye The three passages that begin The Bluest Eye appear to be from a Children's book. They show a family's life in the same terms, but they differ in punctuation, capitalization, and spacing. The first passage is normal in all of these aspects: Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the …

…eyes.) On the other hand, Pecola and Jane are somewhat the same in their lives. They both are searching for someone to play with them, and both find a friend, even though Pecola's friend is imaginary. Finally, an equally innovative structural element is the use of lines from the primer passages to head subsections in the novel, illustrating the vast differences between the mythological Dick and Jane world and the reality of black family life.