... Blacks have to overcome in a world that doesn't accept them. While exploring these various emotions, Toni Morrison also changes the styles in each novel. In The Bluest Eye, the main character, Pecola Breedlove, feels as though she is not beautiful as society says she should be. "The American culture of the early 1940's defines beauty in terms of such actors as Greta Garbo, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple ... " (Magill 243). Morrison "uses the contrast between Shirley Temple and Pecola to underscore the irony of black experience" states Phyllis R. Klotman (Metzger 413). Racism is an eve...

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