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Setting in ”The Bluest Eye” Time 1940-41 The novel is divided into the four seasons Place Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's home town) It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets. At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. The African-American community of Lorain, Ohio suffers from internalize racism. Autumn 1940 The European part of World War II had just begun full force Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls These features reflects the Aryan ideal The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes Seasons The novel is divided into four seasons, but it pointedly refuses to meet the expectations of these seasons: Spring The traditional time of rebirth, reminds Claudia of being whipped with new switches, and it is the season when Pecola is raped Autumn Pecola's baby dies, the season of harvesting Morrison uses natural cycles to underline the unnaturalness and misery of her characters' experiences.
Approximate Word count = 377
Approximate Pages = 1.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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