5/7). They have been segregated even from other blacks, so one feels like the other is bigger in life. White people presented their image as the only beautiful one in existence and made “…little black girls yearn for the blue eyes of a little white girl…” (Morrison 204). The black people in this novel have in mind that "if you have a life to live, live it as a blonde" and this belief is what tore Pecola's life apart (Weever 1/5). : The Inverted World of The BluestEye and Sula CLA Journal by Toni Morrison, Vol. XXII, No. 4, June 1979, pp. 402-14.Infotrac, 12-13-04 http://galenet.galegroup.comLazarescu, Lisa R: Copyright 2003, Oregon College, August 18, 2003http://web. cocc.edu/lisal/thebluesteye/themes.htmKubitschek, Missy Dehn: Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion 27-46Westport: Greenwood, 1998. Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye. New York: Penguin Group, 1994.

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