The Bluest Eye Women and Femininity Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 Their conversation is like a gently wicked dance: sound meets sound, curtsies, shimmies, and retires. Another sound enters but is upstaged by another: the two circle each other and stop. (1.1.19) |
Claudia, eavesdropping, finds beauty in the sound of women talking.
| Quote #2 Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs – all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. 'Here,' they said, 'this is beautiful, and if you are on this day "worthy" you may have it.' (1.1.38) |
Women's culture promotes identification with whiteness.
| Quote #3 Marie sat shelling peanuts and popping them into her mouth. Pecola looked and looked at the women. Were they real? Marie belched, softly, purringly, lovingly. (1.3.47) |
Marie defies all societal notions of femininity.
