In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shows that anger is healthy and that it is not something
to be feared; those who are not able to get angry are the ones who suffer the most. She criticizes
Cholly, Polly, Claudia, Soaphead Church, the Mobile Girls, and Pecola because these blacks in her
story wrongly place their anger on themselves, their own race, their family, or even God, instead of
being angry at those they should have been angry at: whites.
Pecola Breedlove suffered the most because she was the result of having others' anger
dumped on her, and she herself was unable to get angry. When Geraldine yells at her to get out of
her house, Pecola's eyes were fixed on the "pretty" lady and her "pretty" house. Pecola does not
stand up to Maureen Peal when she made fun of her for seeing her dad naked but instead lets
Freida and Claudia fight for her. Instead of getting mad at Mr. Yacobowski for looking down on
her, she directed her anger toward the dandelions she......
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