The novel The Bluest Eye deals with the colour problem in America. Discuss.
would be better off, he is essentially belongs with them. His letter to God is an interrogation of God’s unjust dispensation and also implies the unavailability of divine help in sorting out the colour problem. In that sense it ironically articulates the need to come to terms with it in purely human terms.
The only other characters who actively sympathize with Pecola are the MacTeer children, Claudia the narrator and her sister Frieda. They alone stand up to the pressure, brought on by popular culture in favour of the white stereotype of beauty. They are presented as a contrast to the Breedloves. Economically they are only slightly better off but emotionally they belong to a happier home and are more secure and mentally they are much tougher and more self-assured. When the honeyed response that Maureen Peal gets everywhere shakes their faith in