... (Bakerman 58). Narration in The Bluest Eye comes from several sources. Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer as a nine year old child, but Morrison also gives the reader the benefit of Claudia reflecting on the story as an adult, some first person narration from Pecola's mother, and narration by Morrison herself as an omniscient narrator. Morrison says, "First I wrote it [the section in The Bluest Eye about Pecola's mother] out as ... ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 43). She has transferred society's dislike of her to the dandelions. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the...

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