The love Claudia’s mother displays for her is a complicated one, involving both care and chastisement, soothing and scolding.
WHEN WAS THE BLUEST EYE WRITTEN FULL
The scene is full of potential pain: Claudia remembers that her mother’s hands were “large and rough” as she rubs Vicks salve on her small chest and that her younger self was “rigid with pain ” she remembers the misplaced anger of her mother as she talks to the vomit “calling it name: Claudia” (11). The novel begins in autumn, where Claudia, who has come down with a cold, talks about the routines and rituals in which her mother engages to make her better. She examines the interaction between pain and familial and sexual love in her novel The Bluest Eye leading the reader to realize the different ways that love and pain interact with each other, and that love, by nature, is inherently painful. By situating pain and love in the same sentiment, Morrison seems to suggest that love, when at its most sincere and poignant, is tinged with some sort of pain. While love is generally thought to involve pleasure, pain oftentimes is used in conjunction with love in the novel, modifying and complicating it. In her first novel, The Bluest Eye, Morrison tells the story of two families that are informed and affected by love in drastically different ways. However, in an interview, Morrison stated that she actually writes “about the same thing…which is how people relate to one another and miss it or hang on to…or are tenacious about love” (Otten 653). The rape, incest, subjugation and poverty are all familiar to readers of Faulkner.When discussing Toni Morrison and her novels, it’s tempting to talk about race since her body of work addresses that subject in such powerful ways. The mad dialogue at the end brings to mind Vardaman and his naive, run-on thoughts. The scene of Pecola going to the market combined with the scene of her going to Soaphead's brings to mind Dewey Dell in As I Lay Dying and her silence at the pharmacy, and her feelings of ostracization there. In any case I see a lot of parallels to Faulkner here: writing about the poorest people with the richest prose, for one. Is it able to have a structure like this book? Opera moves from present point to present point. Even in reflective arias that don't push forward the action, we never see characters back in time, only as they are presently and how they develop. I can't think of any opera where the linear narrative isn't the main driving force.
even though the narrative is broken up like this, it's all woven in, and the characters in our eyes gain depths of experience and time. We go back in time to read about Cholly and Polly and Geraldine and Soaphead and others their back stories interrupt the flow but give the context of the present time.
Thr Bluest Eye is written in waves of biography, the outcome already known from the beginning, but each character getting a carefully remembered history and clear line of development independent of the linear action. But her novel captures something that music cannot, that is the depth of time. In Toni Morrison's first novel, she rhapsodizes on Cholly's unfortunate life, writing that only a musician can tap into the primal feelings he suffered, that words alone weren't up to the task.
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