The Bluest Eye Conflict

Pecola’s inner conflict was solved when she went to see Soaphead Church to have her eye color changed.  He said if she took the meat he was giving to her, gave it to Bob, the dog, and he acted weird upon eating it then she would receive her blue eyes.  Sure enough, after giving Bob the meat, he wondered off into the yard coughing the cough of a sick man, stumbling over nothing, and eventually dying.  This off reaction meant Pecola was going to receive her blue eyes that she had asked for.  The catch, however, was that nobody could see the blueness of Pecola’s eyes except for Pecola herself.  When she looked in the mirror, she believed that she truly had the bluest of the blue eyes, while everyone else still saw her as ugly Pecola Breedlove.  This causes Pecola to go mad and get kicked out of school.

 

I would say the climax would be when Pecola finally decided to ask Soaphead Church for her blue eyes.  This event causes the most dramatic change in the main character.  She had convinced herself that she had the bluest eyes, and that was all that mattered to her.  She felt beautiful and everything else didn’t matter one bit.  She was, in her own mind, the most beautiful thing ever.  She had changed so much that she began to be secluded from all of her friends that were present in the beginning of the book.

2 thoughts on “The Bluest Eye Conflict

  1. Awesome! I agree with you on the climax as well, all of her suffering and conflicts led up to that ultimatum, and she changed the was she perceives herself forever. You were much more detailed than I was in your response also!

  2. I like your view on what the climax was. I agree that because Soaphead Church gave Pecola her blue eyes it changed her forever. However, I don’t think Pecola left school because she went mad from her blue eyes. I think she left because she was pregnant and no one wanted to be around her. But all together I liked your opinion on the stories ending.

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