In “The Bluest Eyes,” author Toni Morrison portrays the idea of ​​beauty and its standard for African Americans living in white American society through a narrator named Claudia. The protagonist of Morrison's novel, Pecola Breedlove, is the truest victim, because she is an innocent little girl born into a family that does not provide her with any support to endure society's racial prejudices. The little black girl Pecola has a crazy desire for blue eyes, which shows that the white-dominated culture has almost assimilated African American women and made them lose. The Bluest Eye reveals the truth that black Americans will not be able to live with dignity if they renounce black culture under the impact of the dominant white culture in American society. In “The Bluest Eye,” Morrison describes the ways in which white beauty standards change the lives of black women. Whiteness is superior throughout the book, from the doll Claudia received for Christmas, to the admiration of Shirley Temple's mug, to Mary Jane on the candy wrappers, to the famous white actress Jean Harlow. Pecola Breedlove's obsession with blue eyes serves as a way to transcend her own ugliness and become beautiful as white females. "Every night, without stopping, he prayed for blue eyes... he would never know his beauty." (Morrison 53) Pecola blames her ugliness as the reason why people in her town don't like her and the love and support she lacks from her family. A major theme that illustrates his passivity in believing his ugliness is Mr. Yacobowski's candy shop. Pecola went into a candy store to buy some candy but the store owner, Mr. Yacobowski, stared at her as if he couldn't recognize her, "because there's nothing for him to see." (Morrison 67) For...... middle of paper ...... they direct their contempt towards Cholly or towards white standards but towards Pecola, the ultimate victim. Self-hatred for being black and beauty ideals have made Pecola desire a beauty that does not belong to her and ultimately loses her sanity. Claudia, reflecting on the past, recalled: "All of us felt so sane after straddling her ugliness. Her inarticulability made us believe we were eloquent. We honed our egos on her, filled our characters with its frailty and we yawned in the imagination of our strength” (Morrison 205). The citizens took advantage of Pecola's standardized ugliness and her self-hatred to make them more acceptable to standard beauty. You have to love who you are and see what surrounds you through your own eyes. It depends on each individual's desire to accept who they are and not get carried away by society's beauty standards.