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Monster Essays - The Bluest Eye
Misdirection of Anger "Anger is better [than shame]. There is a sense of
being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth."(50) This is how
many of the blacks in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye felt. They faked love when
they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have with anger.
The Bluest Eye shows the way that the blacks were compelled to place their
anger on their own families and on their own blackness instead of on the white
people who were the cause of their misery. In this manner, they kept their anger
circulating among themselves, in effect oppressing themselves, ....
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