Use of color in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eyes"

Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and 'that streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home. All them colors was in me'1. Pauline and Cholly left the colors of the South when they moved North to Ohio to begin their life together. Through Cholly, Pauline hoped to find those colors …

…'Soaphead Church'9. It is through the whispers about Pecola and the shunning of her that the town justifies the image of good and beautiful. It is because Pecola becomes pregnant with her father's child that she no longer has the ability, if it ever exsisted, to be beautiful in the eyes of society. The pregancy has also destroyed her chances of recieving her mothers love and approval forever because she is dirty in everyones eyes.