The Bluest Eye 3/3

The family dynamics here are twisted in a way that the student essays, especially the Asian-American ones that focused on sexuality, weren't. In those households where homosexuality was considered a perversion and sin, I don't feel that incest and rape would be as much of a concern (although I certainly don't know for sure). The way that the justification of the sexual abuse of those little girls described their reactions as being "the light white laughter of little girls," how it uses white as if that adjective forgives or at least ameliorates the consequences of the context stood out and surprised me (Morrison 181). The way that the reactions to Pecola's pregnancy centered on how the baby would "be the ugliest thing walking" was also shocking and saddening (189). As opposed to focusing on the fact that Cholly impregnated his daughter, they focus on how they want the baby dead, and they eventually get their wish.