The bluest eye theme movie#

The bluest eye theme movie#

A movie actress that Pecolas mother, Pauline Breedlove, admired was Jean Harlow.

This is seen when Morrison writes, To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. She felt that if she ate the candy, then she would become Mary Jane. Pecola is also fascinated with Mary Janes blue eyes. Yacobowskis store, she buys the Mary Jane candy. Another reference to idealized beauty is the little girl on the Mary Jane candy wrappers.

MacTeer because Pecola was drinking so much of their milk. Morrison writes, She was a long time with the milk, and gazed fondly at the silhouette of Shirley Temples dimpled face (19). When Pecola first moves in with the MacTeer family, she immediately developed a fascination for the Shirley Temple cups. Temple, a popular young actress in the 1930s and 40s, was best known for her curly blonde hair and blue eyes. There were many references to Caucasian girls and women that Pecola idolized. For example, in African-American culture, a woman who is thick would be considered beautiful. Other ethnic groups also have their standards of beauty. Caucasians may still consider ideal beauty to be blue eyes, blonde hair, and also thin physiques. Still in society today, we have our standards of beauty as well. These features not only included blue eyes, but blonde hair as well. Pecola longs to have blue eyes so that she could look like the Caucasian women whose features were considered to be ideal.