A review by aspiringcowboy
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

challenging dark tense medium-paced

2.5

frustrating in the ways it's supposed to be, but also so much more as well. the narrative is just very disjointed and takes away a lot of the impact of the story; i don't mind the fact that it's not from pecola's POV, because i think that's intentional - not giving her a voice in her own story does strengthen her character - but there's just a lot of tangents that feel unnecessary and out of place. i really don't understand the segue into soaphead church's background and the weird explanation of how he "could have been an active homosexual" but was "a coward" so he... became a pedophile targeting little girls instead?? i also really did not like how at the end claudia says cholly "loved" pecola: "He, at any rate, was the one who loved her enough to touch her, envelop her, give something of himself to her." a very weird way to discuss a man raping his own child. 
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