Throughout this passage of The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, one feels both sympathy for Claudia and also her frustration. Claudia is angry over the fact that what society excepts as beautiful is something that she can never be because she is black. Claudia releases her frustration on a doll, that is white and considered beautiful and it brings out her anger because she could never look like that.
Morrison through her word choice conveys a sense of sadness when thinking about what Claudia is going through and also one can feel her rage as she breaks the doll apart. Claudia's parents were "clucking" with joy, believing that they had fulfilled Claudia's "fondest wish" and would bring her "great pleasure" but it did the ex
The authors detail expresses the rage that Claudia feels and also how one feels sorrowful for Claudia to have experience what she is going through. The doll that Claudia received was a "big blue-eyed Baby Doll" and "all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured" but to Claudia she was "physically revolted and secretly frightened" of the doll. What supposedly the world sees as beautiful may not be what everyone thinks just because it is white with blue eyes and blonde hair. Claudia is upset with the doll because, what is accepted as beautiful is something that she can never be and that frustrates her. Claudia loses it and began to "break off the tiny fingers", "remove the cold and stu
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