In a film interview, Morrison has stated, “I suppose The Bluest Eye is about one’s dependency on the world for identification, self-value, feelings of worth.” Toni Morrison has been consistently insightful and helpful critic of her work. With regard to her first novel, she has indicated that her plan was to take love and the effects of its scarcity in the world as her major themes, concentrating on the interior lives of her characters, especially those of an enclosed community. Her stated aim is to show “how to survive whole in a world where we are all of us, in some measure, victims of something.” Morrison’s broad vision extends beyond the individual to one that explores self-discovery in relation to a “shared history.” In order to dramatize the destructive effects of this kind of dependency, she intentionally exaggerates to find the limits.
In The Bluest Eye, Claudia MacTeer provides a child’s point of view-sometimes from an adult perspective